Commercial shoots are really quite different from movies. Movies require emotion, but the commercial director had only one requirement for Chen Ming: just look handsome, that's all.
You didn't need to worry about being sincere or heartfelt; sincerity was useless. You just had to strike poses in front of the camera.
Chen Ming wasn't very familiar with striking poses. Under the guidance of the white-rimmed-glasses-wearing director—whose sexual orientation was impossible to pin down—he quickly learned several poses that, from the perspective of later generations, were utterly cheesy enough to make your toes curl and dig out a three-bedroom apartment on the floor.
Chapter 44