Chapter 82 - Chapter 82: Chapter Eighty-Two: Story (1/2)
Chapter 82: Chapter Eighty-Two: Story
Translator: Dragon Boat Translation Editor: Dragon Boat Translation
Fang Xi felt like her heart was violently struck by a heavy hammer, causing every inch of her bones to throb in heart-wrenching pain.
‘He didn’t love her!’ Those four words were enough to explain the whole thing. Gao Bei was a fool, but so was Fang Xi. Fang Xi endured her heartache and slowly exhaled. “Yun Nan, let’s put this matter aside for now. We’ll recast and pick a new lead actress, ” she commented.
Yun Nan didn’t know her words had inadvertently torn into Fang Xi’s most secret emotional wound. She thought Fang Xi’s pale face was due to her anger at Gao Bei and hurriedly said, “Okay! Don’t worry; we’ll get through this.”
‘ We’re done for!’ Mika thought as he sat in his seat, almost pulling his hair out in stress. The creative team and backstage staff were all silent.
‘4:30 P.M.’ was a story written by Yun Nan for her adoptive mother; it was based on the woman’s true life experiences. When she was very young, human traffickers kidnapped Yun Nan’s adoptive mother and sold her to a family with three sons in the mountains. There, she wasn’t fed or clothed well and had endless work to do every day. At the age of five or six, what little memories she had left of her original home weren’t sufficient to help her find her way back.
That family bought her because they planned to marry her off in exchange for money they could use to pay their future daughter-in-law’s bride prices, or they could marry her to one of their sons if he couldn’t get himself a wife. Many girls shared the same situation in their village, all abused to varying degrees. During the winter, 4:30 p.m. was dinner time for all the families in the village, and only then could these girls take a breather.
Yun Nan’s adoptive mother told her the winter sun at 4:30 in the afternoon was as red as blood. Its rays painted the mountains and forests crimson as if heralding the coming horrors of the night and the heavens’ sympathy for these unfortunate girls.
Her adoptive mother managed to escape when she was sixteen. She met Yun Nan’s adoptive father, and they built a warm family together. Sadly, she couldn’t remember her hometown and never found her birth family. It was why she was so determined to help the lost Yun Nan find her biological parents; she didn’t want Yun Nan to share the same regrets she had.
‘4:30 P.M.’ does show the love between Yun Nan’s adoptive parents, but its story focuses more on the life experiences of the unlucky girls—victims of a cruel time and fate. It was a movie with a heavy and grave theme which was why Yun Nan got so upset when Yun Liu wanted to turn it into a romantic idol drama.
They chose Gao Bei to play the lead role because Yun Nan felt she looked a bit like her adoptive mother, and Mika saw the doe-like innocence Yun Nan had described in her story in her. Once you have the image of a character in mind, it would be difficult to change it. It would be no easy feat for the creative team to erase the previous lead role’s image design from their minds—a task akin to torture.