Get acess to fields in OnetoOneField models within forms

Using Django Forms & APIs
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Hello, I have a problem and will be very happy if someone can help. I have a the following model

class Post(models.Model):
    ...
    title = models.CharField(max_length=500)
    related_to=models.ForeignKey(Related, related_name='post', 
              on_delete=models.CASCADE,blank=True,null=True)
    ...

where related_to connected with

class Related(models.Model):
    book = models.OneToOneField(Book, related_name='related',null=True, blank=True,
                                 on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    novel = models.OneToOneField(Novel,related_name='related', null=True, blank=True,
                                 on_delete=models.CASCADE)
    
    def __str__(self):
        if self.book:
            return self.book.title.original_name
        elif self.novel:
            return self.novel.title.original_name
        else:
             return 'None'

The Book and Novel models are associated with the Title model, which has an original_name field. Also I have the following form to edit the fields I need

class PostForm(forms.ModelForm):
    class Meta:
        model = Post
        fields = ['title', 'main_image', 'related_to']

My problem is that when i create a form like below, every time i make redundant sql queries because of my __str__ method and every time i get full list of fields of Book/Novel models and also additional sql query to Title model,which is definitely redundant when I only need the name
My problem is that I need to get from my Book/Rovel models only the id and original_name field from the related Title model, but I don’t know how to access only those fields in my form.
I thought about something like this ‘related_to__book__title__original_name’ to avoid sql query to title model, but it doesnt work.

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So the way to do this would be to not use the __str__ function to populate the select field. You can build the values for that select widget using a queryset, where the queryset uses the select_related clause (or prefetch_related depending upon the relationships) to get the values to be selected.