"Watching TV dramas."
While cracking sunflower seeds, Xiao's mother pointed at the TV in front of her with her chin and said, "This show is good. I've been watching it every day lately."
Thinking of the data reports that Sister Liu had recently sent him, Xiao He sat down with interest and asked, "Weren't you reading The Legend of Zhao Hua a while ago?"
Since returning from abroad, Xiao He has been busy with announcements and events. Only in the last two days has he finally managed to take some time off to go home and spend time with his parents.
If Xiao He remembered correctly, the day he returned, his mother was watching the TV series "The Legend of Zhaohua," but unexpectedly, it had become "The Imperial Decree" today.
"Oh dear, I can't watch that TV series."
Xiao's mother waved her hand and patted her chest. "I'm planning to retire. I'm already annoyed enough by those brats in my class. If I keep watching 'The Legend of Zhao Hua,' my heart disease and high blood pressure will all come out."
Xiao He: ?
"Don't talk about getting sick from anger, you're perfectly healthy."
He offered a somewhat helpless consolation, then asked with a hint of curiosity, "Is 'The Biography of Zhaohua' really that infuriating?"
Xiao He hadn't even watched his own studio's "The Imperial Decree," let alone the plot of his rival's "The Legend of Zhaohua." However, Xiao He had paid attention to the reputation of his rival. Recently, the online sentiment seemed quite positive, with viewers giving it good reviews, and the screenshots were indeed beautiful, far superior to the works of their own fledgling graduates.
But Xiao He really didn't expect to receive such a evaluation from his mother.
Xiao's mother, a Chinese language teacher, while not fully understanding the director's filming logic, possessed a keen eye for the script's plot. She directly offered her opinion: "The plot of this TV series is consistently depressing from beginning to end, making it suffocating to watch. I roughly understand that they intend to use this 'suppression before elevation' approach, turning the heroine's early hardships and pain into a whetstone, making her more resolute and mature, allowing her to gradually awaken her consciousness and slowly climb upwards..."
"However, the initial setup was too cumbersome, and there were many unnecessary plot points. The visuals were beautiful, but most of them were used to describe and embellish the heroine's suffering, which I felt was a bit too deliberate."
Just like how it always rains when the protagonist suffers hardship, and snows when he is wronged, Xiao's mother admitted that this was one of the ways to advance the plot and indirectly describe the protagonist's psychological activities. However, she found it quite strange that this had to be done every time, and that it had to be filmed in an exceptionally poignant way, repeatedly emphasizing this beauty and tragedy.
Moreover, the female lead was wronged so badly. Her family background was already considered to be of a relatively high level in the palace, but no matter how others harmed her, she just couldn't bring herself to retaliate. And every time she ended up in such a miserable state, whenever Xiao's mother thought that she was going to rise up, that she was going to take revenge, or that she was going to compete for the emperor's favor, the female lead would start to back down again and again, still unable to bring herself to do it.
After several repetitions, Xiao's mother began to hallucinate about her students whom she could never teach, and her blood pressure kept rising. In the end, she chose to give up treatment and switch to other TV dramas to calm her mind.
Thinking that her son's studio had recently released a palace drama called "The Imperial Decree," Xiao's mother promptly watched the show.
The female lead in "The Imperial Decree" is named An Lanyue, and she is played by a newcomer actress. Her performance is still a bit raw, far inferior to Yu Xuezheng, who has been in the industry for many years. However, she is very close to the character, so the role doesn't feel out of place. On the contrary, her beauty elevates the overall quality of the web series.
The overall story of this work is a "feel-good" story of a heroine's rise to power. The main attraction is the story of the heroine, An Lanyue, who enters the palace as a daughter of an ordinary official family and climbs the ranks step by step using her looks and intelligence.
Upon first seeing this delicate and beautiful woman's appearance, Xiao's mother's heart skipped a beat, fearing that this female lead would be another soft and delicate girl who would never talk back or fight back, suffer all kinds of bullying in the palace, and then turn evil and fight back.
However, An Lanyue's performance completely exceeded Xiao's mother's expectations.
Although she appears weak, she is very determined. She has a firm goal in entering the palace. Her delicate and fragile body has not become her weakness, but rather her weapon. The "sickly and weak" tactic she used several times has enabled her to gain huge benefits.
She will repay those who harm her, praise those who hate her, be grateful to those who are kind to her, and treat those who are good to her with kindness.
Whenever An Lanyue appears, no matter how many conspiracies and schemes lie ahead, the audience will feel a sense of security.
—As long as An Lanyue is there, it seems that no difficulty is a problem.
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