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https://scmp.com/culture/film-tv/article/2015628/how-cafe-6s-director-neal-wu-turned-teenage-heartbreak-successful
Culture/ Film & TV

How At Cafe 6’s director Neal Wu turned teenage heartbreak into a successful career

Wu went from being just another lovesick student to one of Taiwan’s most successful youth romance writers. Now he’s released his first feature film

Wu went from being just another lovesick student to one of Taiwan’s most successful youth romance writers. Now he’s released his first feature film

When his heart was broken by a girl in his class in his university days, Neal Wu Tzu-yun found himself holed up in an internet cafe, aimlessly playing computer games by himself. Once he realised that the negative emotions were not going away, he turned to distracting himself by reading fiction online. Before long, Wu began writing and posting his own stories on a BBS message board.

It turned out to be one of the best decisions he has ever made.