Chapter 260 Bumpy Path
After all, Bai Chao was the last disciple of the veteran director, Shen Wei. How could his wife despise him to this extent?
It was a long story. Bai Chao was studying in the directing department of the Capital Film Academy. He was a genius student in their batch. Not long after he entered university, he was chosen by Shen Wei, who was a professor at the school at that time. He took him in as his last disciple and brought him along for many years.
During this period, Shen Wei had also filmed several advertisements and short films. He had won many awards both domestically and abroad. Bai Chao’s wife, Lin Wei, studied acting and was considered his junior sister. The two of them met during this period.
After Bai Chao graduated, with Shen Wei’s help, he took the lead for the first time. He wrote and directed his first big screen work. However, on the second day after he joined the production team, something big happened.
At that time, he took his first work very seriously, so he asked the actors to cultivate their feelings in advance. Hence, he gathered the actors together and went to a small island for training. In the end, during this period, the male and female leads took a liking to each other.
Originally, there was nothing strange about a handsome man and a beautiful woman staying together for a long time, having sparks of love. However, the actor who played the male lead had a girlfriend.
Bai Chao knew about this because his girlfriend had accompanied him to the audition back then. At that time, his girlfriend was worried that he would not be able to attend the audition and even secretly came over to ask Bai Chao for help when no one was paying attention. She even wanted to kneel down to Bai Chao just to let him give her boyfriend a chance, so Bai Chao had a deep impression of her.
It was a very beautiful girl who smiled.
Therefore, after Bai Chao found out about the affair between the male and female leads, he even specially chatted with them. Yet, the male lead said indifferently that this kind of thing was very common in the industry. The female lead also said that if the two of them were really together, it would be easier for them to get into character when filming.
Although Bai Chao knew that this situation was not right, he could not interfere too much in their private matters, so he turned a blind eye.
However, because of this negligence, it led to the subsequent tragedy.
When the girl discovered the male lead’s betrayal, the male lead took the opportunity to break up. The girl was unwilling to give up and chased him to the production team. The male lead and female lead joined forces to humiliate her. As a result, the girl was agitated and climbed onto the high platform built by their film set, wanting to commit suicide.
When Bai Chao received the news and rushed over, he saw this scene. The smiling and beautiful girl in his impression had lost all her halo in just a month and was wandering on the high platform like a piece of rag.
Bai Chao was shocked. He was about to go up and pull her down when the girl jumped. In the blink of an eye, she landed in front of him, and a red flower bloomed on the cement floor.
That day, Bai Chao had punched that scumbag and slapped himself three times. The production team had been disbanded. The scene of the girl jumping had often appeared in Bai Chao’s eyes in the middle of the night, becoming his trauma.
From then on, he had a conflict with his identity as a director. He felt that he couldn’t be a good director, so he didn’t think about filming anymore. He only focused on following Shen Wei, helping him with odd jobs and handling some trivial matters.
In the end, it was Shen Wei who couldn’t stand it anymore. He helped Bai Chao find a professional psychiatrist and adjusted him for almost two years before he got over the psychological trauma and regrouped. Hence, he became a director again and filmed “Midsummer’s Time”.
Bai Chao felt that he had already troubled his teacher a lot in the past, so even though he encountered a lot of problems in the early stages of the production, he did not ask Shen Wei for help. In fact, when he was at his wits’ end, he even thought about whether he should mortgage his house and finish filming this movie.
And this was the trigger for his breakup with his wife, Lin Wei.
“She was also a student at the Film Academy at that time and was very good-looking. She said that she liked me because she liked my talent.” Bai Chao recalled the past and smiled bitterly. “But actually, I know that she liked me because she knew that I was the disciple of the famous Director Shen Wei.”
However, Bai Chao didn’t mind even though he found out what Lin Wei was thinking, because he really liked her. “It’s a pity that I didn’t become a successful director like she wanted. Instead, I became a good-for-nothing. She must have tolerated me for long enough.”
After graduation, the two of them got married. Lin Wei originally thought that with the help of his teacher, he would soon become an outstanding director like his fellow disciples. She didn’t expect that Bai Chao’s director path would be so bumpy.