Sometime in the middle of the community quarantine here in the Philippines, a bunch of romance authors decided to work on a web series. Yep. *snaps fingers* Just like that. I think it’s safe to say spite and pettiness and rage were very strong motivators, because man…did the scripts come out so fast!
(This might have been how we looked like within 48 hours of saying “Let’s do this!”)
Anyway, long story short: Things were shitty. We wanted to make things a little better. Therefore, Hello, Ever After was conceived.
I celebrated Play It By Ear‘s first book birthday on May 15th, and I asked #romanceclass Class President, theatre actor, Gio Gahol to read a scene from the book, more specifically, something from Episode Twenty-One: The Show Must Go On.
This was super short notice. I’d been thinking and thinking and thinking of what I could do to make Yihwan’s first book birthday special (apart from giving away free copies of the book, which I did), and I realized I don’t have a reading of Yihwan and Yoojung just yet. The last time Gio read Yihwan, it was for Summer Crush…and that didn’t have a happy ending for him. See below video for reference.
So yeah, of course I wanted a reading where Yihwan actually gets the girl this time, so I contacted Gio with the idea and he said yes! <3 I sent him the excerpt and a few days later, I got this:
Heehee. Sidenote: Kinilig ako hearing Gio pronounce “Mianhaeyo” correctly. (In the book, it was actually just “Mianhae,” but that’s fine. Everything’s fine. We goooood.)
Now excuse me while I rewatch this for the nth time. <3
