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Hu Mei couldn't sit still anymore.Dream of Red Mansions: A Perfect MarriageAfter the release of "The Legend of the Condor Heroes", word of mouth collapsed and the box office was dismal. It has been released for almost a week and has only sold more than 4 million.

The total box office predicted by the platform data will not even break 10 million.

Under such circumstances, Hu Mei, who once said, "Let the box office do whatever it wants, whatever it wants," changed her previous indifference and angrily posted a long article on her personal social platform.

However, netizens did not buy it. They responded to Hu Mei's comments.

At the beginning of the article, Hu Mei hit the nail on the head and angrily asked those who gave the film a bad review, "Where does the deep hatred come from?"

Then, she said that "The Dream of Red Mansions: The Golden Marriage" was the work in which she had "invested the most effort in her life", and it took her 18 years to complete it.

In response to this, netizens responded by saying "put "Dream of the Red Chamber》is filmed like this, which shows that she has a deep hatred for Cao Xueqin", and suggested that she should consider retiring early.

In the article, Hu Mei questioned whether the film was hacked.

The reason is that someone used virtual data to send negative reviews in bulk, and many of the accounts had only been registered for a few months.

Afterwards, she "self-deprecatingly" said that she was just an ordinary citizen and not worth the "big names"' attention.

Netizens said that the audience of "A Dream of Red Mansions Part Two: Golden Jade Marriage" is not large to begin with, and it is already not easy for the audience to be willing to pay attention to it, so there is no need to deliberately criticize it.

Some people also used their actions to prove that they are real people in the comment section, jokingly saying "5 stars should be given by water army".

At the end of the article, Hu Mei even posted two video accounts and said that she had entrusted a lawyer to keep the evidence. Her move also angered netizens, who called on Cao Gong's descendants to fight back.

A long article of hundreds of words not only failed to reverse the trend, but was accused of "breaking the defense with every word" and even questioned the performance of past works. In fact, there is only one reason.

That is, everyone’s disapproval of “The Dream of Red Mansions: Part One”.

Before the film was released, Hu Mei said in an interview that she was filming an innovative version of "Dream of Red Mansions".

Because "if there is no innovation, there is no point in shooting today."

Her greatest innovation was to use the story of "Jia Keng and Lin Cai" in the field of "Redology" as the main narrative line of the film.

So, in the film, the audience saw that after Lin Daiyu lost her father and went to the Jia Mansion, she was bullied by Wang Xifeng because she was alone and helpless, and the money she brought with her was taken away and used to build the Grand View Garden.

However, although this main storyline completes Hu Mei's setting of "conspiracy and love", for the audience who do not accept this conspiracy theory, it is a magical change.

In addition to the main narrative line, "A Dream of Red Mansions: A Perfect Match" also changed the narrative timeline, taking the second meeting between Jia Baoyu and Lin Daiyu as the entry point.

So, the audience, who were unprepared, watched their joyful reunion with confused faces, expecting to see "Bao and Dai's first meeting".

Apart from the main plot of the "Jia Keng Lin Cai" conspiracy, what the audience cannot accept the most is the various OOC of the characters.

Lin Daiyu lost the pure and ethereal spirit that the character should have, and became just as the actor had understood before, "sarcastic and mean". Her behavior was totally different from that of a lady from a noble family, and she moved very fast, as if running 800 meters was no big deal.

Jia Baoyu is no longer gentle and affectionate, but rather a fool with low IQ. In the scene where he quarrels with Lin Daiyu, he even plays his anger with hatred, as if he can punch Lin Daiyu at any time.

When Xue Baochai appears, she is either embroidering or catching butterflies, and she also has to educate Baoyu; Wang Xifeng does not have the elegance and beauty of Jia's second wife Lian, and her eyes, one is full of calculations and the other is full of money.

Then there is Aunt Xue who is a matchmaker, Jia Zheng who screams “My son” at Yuanchun, Granny Liu who is plump and doesn’t look like a poor person, and Yuanchun who is beautiful but doesn’t look like a concubine…

It can be said that none of them matches.

The completely unrecognizable characters, the details of the lines that seem to have been turned on the "Great Shift of the Universe" mode, and the fragmented story made "A Dream of Red Mansions Part Two", which Hu Mei spent 18 years to complete, a failed version of "taking the dregs and discarding the essence".

It is normal for the audience to disagree.

However, the contrast in the director's attitude before and after the film was released was so great that it was somewhat surprising.

Perhaps it is really difficult for people who have been famous for a long time to accept failure.