This director is vindictive.

Chapter 387 When Fat People Start Losing Weight, Keyboard Warriors Start Typing

Speaking of which, the fairy sister may seem aloof, but that's just on the surface. Once you get to know her, Chen Mo knows she's quite interesting.

There's just one thing: even though we've been married for so long, we still get shy sometimes.

Moreover, compared to Zhang Yuqi and Yang Mi, she wasn't as uninhibited, and sometimes it was difficult for Chen Mo to do the tricks he wanted.

Mainly, seeing her pitiful appearance with tears streaming down her face, Chen Mo often couldn't bring himself to hurt her.

However, this time, perhaps because she had made a mistake, she was still shy and reluctant, but she made Chen Mo experience what it meant to desecrate a fairy!

The controversy surrounding "Hot Hot" and Chen Mo's statement that "Jia Ling has lost weight, so the box office is good" is still raging.

Chen Mo didn't even intend to respond. To put it bluntly, the distributor of "Hot and Spicy" might have been behind the scenes fueling this controversy.

After all, being controversial is still being famous. Movies aren't afraid of controversy; they're afraid of no one paying attention!

"Aren't you going to respond or clarify anything?" Liu Yifei asked Chen Mo, her hair cascading down her back as she looked at him with curiosity.

"What's there to respond to? What's there to clarify? Are you saying I didn't say that? Or are you just making things up?" Chen Mo said dismissively.

"But there's so much controversy now!" Liu Yifei reached for her phone and opened Weibo. The hashtag #ChenMoSarcasticAboutTheHotHotFoot’sWeightLossMarketing# was still trending.

The people below were arguing incessantly.

Chen Mo reached out and placed Liu Yifei's phone face down on the bedside table, his fingertips twirling her long, flowing hair as he chuckled, "Believe it or not, the 'Hot and Spicy' publicity company has been stirring things up behind the scenes in the current situation!"

Seeing the person in his arms blinking in confusion, he simply sat up and drew back the curtains, letting in the midday sun.

"Hehe, they dominated the trending topics for three days, saving them at least tens of millions in advertising costs—we're the ones who got free publicity this time."

Liu Yifei suddenly propped herself up halfway, the blanket slipping off Xue's shoulders: "But those comments saying you're misogynistic..."

Before she could finish speaking, Chen Mo silenced her with a kiss, his calloused thumb stroking the corner of her reddened eye: "Do you think netizens will believe that? If I'm misogynistic, what are you? Aren't you women?"

"Moreover, discrimination against obesity is something that can't be said openly, but in reality, it happens all the time!"

In addition, with gender antagonism becoming increasingly severe, "Hot and Spicy" can be said to have chosen a really good commercial subject!
Jia Ling is also a female director, which gives her a natural advantage.

"If there's no controversy, then this movie loses its meaning!" Chen Mo said dismissively.

In real life, fat people feel inferior, fat people are discriminated against, and so on.

Everyone likes handsome and beautiful people and dislikes ugly people. So, can ugly people also say that you are discriminating against me?
Yes, it is discrimination. Who told you to be ugly?
You see, this is basic common sense, so why doesn't anyone say it's discrimination?
As he spoke, Chen Mo picked up his phone again and swiped it a few times.

Then he laughed: "Look at this!"

As Chen Mo spoke, he showed his phone to Liu Yifei.

It was that bed scene from the movie "Hot and Spicy".

In the film, the female protagonist Du Leying, played by Jia Ling, faces the boxing coach played by Lei Datou. She reveals the shyness and humility unique to the character, and even goes so far as to fabricate lies to alleviate the psychological pressure that the other party may feel, claiming that she is not a novice in the world of emotions.

This sex scene is starting to show signs of becoming a new point of controversy.

The comments below are quite interesting.

"Can Jia Ling really act in such intimate scenes?"

How can a voluptuous character maintain her virginity?

"It's absolutely eye-watering! I was shocked by how spicy it was when I saw the preview screening!"

This naturally sparked controversy.

One female movie fan wrote: "Actually, I wasn't particularly moved at first, but when I was watching the movie, the guy next to me said: 'Jia Ling can even film sex scenes now? She's so fat and she's still not a virgin?' (Because Jia Ling said she wasn't?)"
Then, for some reason, I got really angry. I argued with him for two hours in the movie theater, and then I bought a ticket to see the next showing! Only after watching the whole thing did I feel it was meaningful and exhilarating, and I also felt really brave!

Chen Mo asked with a smile, "What are your thoughts?"

Liu Yifei frowned slightly, somewhat surprised, and said, "Everyone seems to really care about obesity."

Chen Mo shook his head and swiped down again to show her a comment.

"Behind such remarks, it is not hard to see the prejudice and discrimination that society suffers against overweight women in the field of marriage and love—as if they are marginalized by mainstream aesthetics."

However, such stereotypes are everywhere in life. When a plus-size girl walks down the street hand in hand with a male friend, she often encounters ridicule and sarcasm from others, who even speculate that she must attract her partner with her abundant material wealth.

From my perspective, this is precisely what director Jia Ling is trying to subvert and challenge through his work—that plus-size girls are also human individuals with rich emotions and normal needs, so why can't they freely pursue and enjoy normal sexual experiences? Through Jia Ling's courageous attempt, *Hot and Spicy* is a powerful challenge to the shackles of traditional aesthetics, calling on the public to re-examine and accept diverse forms of beauty and love.

Liu Yifei nodded and said, "It's very well written and makes a lot of sense! Is there any problem?"

Chen Mo shook his head and chuckled, "Makes sense? Do you know what I thought after reading it?"

"What were you thinking? It makes a lot of sense, and the example this netizen gave is really realistic!" Liu Yifei said with some surprise.

She genuinely felt there was nothing wrong with it.

But Chen Mo shook his head and said, "What a load of rubbish! What do you mean by calling on the public to re-examine and accept the beauty and love of diversity?"

"The person who wrote this comment is a complete keyboard warrior! If this person were a man, and you asked him to find a girlfriend who weighs 200 pounds, would he be willing?"

"If it were a woman, and you asked her to date a 300-pound fat man, do you think she would be willing?" Chen Mo countered.

Liu Yifei was immediately stunned.

My brain is a complete mess!
Because what Chen Mo said also makes a lot of sense.

Putting aside others, even if we don't talk about finding a boyfriend, it's hard for her to really appreciate someone who weighs several hundred pounds!

"Furthermore, as mentioned before, if an overweight girl openly holds hands with a male friend and strolls down the street, she will be pointed at and gossiped about in all sorts of dark speculations and whispers. But conversely, if a very overweight man holds hands with a normal-sized girl, do you think people won't be suspicious and gossiped about?"

Moreover, popular aesthetics, at least mainstream aesthetics, do not discriminate against "fat". I like thin people, but I also like plump people, provided that it is not too outrageous or exaggerated.

Is the fat man played by Jia Ling in "Hot and Spicy" a normal fat man? Obviously not!
"Normal plumpness is indeed a kind of voluptuous beauty, but abnormal plumpness is something even the person themselves doesn't like. How can you expect people with normal aesthetic sense to like it?" Chen Mo said dismissively.

"So, apart from being beneficial to the film's promotion, this controversy is unlikely to change anything in the first place! Does watching a movie make people start to like overweight men and women? Does it change aesthetic standards?" Chen Mo added.

"You can't say that, can you? Is it possible that after this movie is released, it will inspire many overweight women to lose weight? Or even start taking action?" Liu Yifei blinked and said.

"Hehe, so in the end, it's still inseparable from weight loss! And you see, on one hand, we're calling on everyone to accept more diverse aesthetics, but on the other hand, the fat people in the movies are still trying hard to lose weight and get rid of obesity," Chen Mo said with a smile.

"So, this is just a story about a fat woman's weight loss and transformation. It's inspiring, but that's all! Don't take it too seriously!"

Liu Yifei's eyes suddenly lit up. Wasn't that right?
The most a movie can do is make some overweight people want to lose weight, but which overweight person hasn't thought about losing weight?

It's just that they often can't do it.

What's the point of the controversies and debates sparked by the film if even these people can't live up to their own words?

"It seems that a certain fairy has finally come to her senses?"

Chen Mo looked into her suddenly bright eyes and was suddenly tackled onto the feather pillow.

Liu Yifei straddled his waist, mimicking his usual roguish manner as she pinched his chin: "Director Chen is right, but the punishment isn't over yet—"

Her deliberately drawn-out tone was interrupted by Fan Binbin, who burst through the door.

"Tsk tsk, still lazing around in bed so early in the morning?" Fan Binbin looked at the two of them with a smile.

"Sister Binbin, we were talking about the controversy surrounding 'Hot and Spicy'," Liu Yifei said shyly, shrinking under the covers.

Fan Binbin walked over and plopped down on the bed, the large millstone pressing a very deep crease into it.

"That? Yifei, you're completely overthinking it. I was just about to tell you."

"Jia Ling just danced a girl group dance on Douyin!"

On screen, the drastically thin female director is wearing a crop top, and the background music is the theme song of "Hot and Spicy". The pinned comment, "Thanks to Director Chen for the golden quote", has received millions of likes.

Fan Binbin laughed and said, "See? The person in question is already making the joke, and you guys are just worrying about nothing!"

Chen Mo suddenly rolled over and pressed Liu Yifei down into the soft bedding, whispering in her ear, "Now you know who the little fool is?"

"I'm not!" Liu Yifei said in a sullen and arrogant voice.

Chen Mo said with a smile, "You really should learn from your sister Binbin in this regard. Come on, Fan Bingbing, teach our fairy sister how to deal with public opinion."

Fan Binbin is arguably the most knowledgeable about this among Chen Mo's women.

Fan Binbin reached out and grabbed Liu Yifei's hand, drawing a spiral in her palm: "Public opinion is like a mosquito coil; the more you chase it, the more you get burned."

(End of this chapter)