This round of drinking was meant to be moderate and restrained; after all, being on a film crew, nobody was going to get genuinely drunk. For the director to show face and drink along a little was already a way of looking after the lead actors' emotional states.
However, as the old saying goes, among any three people walking together, there is bound to be a mastermind. Peter Chan, being the director, was precisely that kind of person.
Anyone else would have looked at this as a normal celebratory drinking session, where you just drink happily and call it a day. But not Peter Chan. While drinking with Chen Ming, Deng Chao, and Tong Dawei, he suddenly felt that the scene where the conflict among the three sworn brothers erupts would work exceptionally well set right at a dinner table.
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