The Hundred Flowers Award, fully known as the Hundred Flowers Awards for Popular Cinema, was held this year in conjunction with the 21st Golden Rooster and Hundred Flowers Film Festival at the Shaoxing International Convention & Exhibition Center. The theme was "Shaoxing of Poetry and Painting, Cinema for You and Me."
After receiving his nominations at the end of August, the organizing committee specifically contacted Chen Ming and asked him to provide a headshot—preferably a professional art portrait. Otherwise, they would be forced to use a film still from one of his nominated works for the promotional display. Terrified, Chen Ming spent the entire night tracking down a photographer he had worked with on a commercial, begging for some outtakes to submit instead.
He wasn't joking around; he had nominations for both *The Flying Swords of Dragon Gate* and *Love Is Not Blind*. If they put up a photo of Wang Xiaojian, that would be one thing, but if they really plastered a picture of Yu Huatian up there for all to see, what was he supposed to do?
Chapter 60