Before Lin Xiaoxiao could recover for even a few days, observant netizens dug up details from the first to the twentieth episode of "The Waves".
Lin Xiaoxiao was hailed as a goddess by netizens for her performance in the first episode, which featured the male lead on his way to school.
This scene, featuring the people inside the train, the people outside the train, and the male protagonist, forms a world-famous painting.
The people inside the train were dressed in overcoats, exuding an air of elite sophistication, while those outside were refugees who couldn't afford train tickets and were fleeing from the south to the central region with their families, relying on their own two legs and a wheelbarrow.
Of course, some people secretly hid in the train's connecting area, trying to hitch a ride. The protagonist was late boarding and sat near the connecting area, which is why he was bitten by the goose of the stowaways.
The man carefully carried his "goose," his only possession, to protect the equally thin child behind him, who was now just a head. He stared anxiously at the male protagonist, fearing that the protagonist would call the conductor to kick him off the train.
The male protagonist is a wealthy young man who has received advanced education and wants to make his mark in this chaotic world. He can tell from the appearance of the two children that they have illegally crossed the border, so he gives up in the end.
The filth and chaos outside the train contrasted sharply with the cleanliness and elegance inside. At the train connection, there were illegal immigrants. Southerners felt that it was safer to go north, while northerners fled to the south. It was a chaotic era where no place was safe.
The people on the train heading south were opportunists from that era of warlordism, hoping to make their mark in the chaotic south and rise to power.
What kind of era was this? There were people suffering from hunger and cold and destitute, as well as people with evil intentions and wickedness, and even wealthy young men in suits who wanted to realize their ambitions.
What a chaotic era, that people who would never otherwise appear in the same scene end up in the same picture.
One blogger even dug up that when the male protagonist asked someone to buy a train ticket at the beginning, he used two gold bricks, calculating that ordinary people in this era couldn't even afford a train ticket.
The train was moving very slowly, and outside the window, there were many people with their families pushing wheelbarrows along the train's direction, in the opposite direction from where the man wanted to go.
These details, when put together, send chills down your spine, especially your back.
After thinking about it carefully, the blogger in the video immediately teared up. So many people were struggling, even starving to death on the roadside, while the people on the train were throwing chicken legs to dogs on the ground and laughing as they watched the struggling people outside the window.
The naive male lead is like a character from an idol drama, and shouldn't be in this inappropriate scene. But he's there so charming and innocent, yet his appearance is quite reasonable, just like some wealthy people in that era who wanted to achieve something great.
He was bitten by a goose. The goose's owner hugged his goose tightly in fear. Instead of scolding or blaming him as expected, he just sighed and got off the bus.
The blogger then realized that on the first viewing, he thought the male protagonist's sigh was a helpless and funny one, but upon rewatching, he was chilled to the bone and felt a hint of tragedy. It wasn't a helpless sigh at all; it was a sigh of powerlessness against this man-eating monster, and all he could do was look for companions in the forum.
[As expected of any drama directed by Lin, the predictable outcome is that it's another tragedy. Lin, you scoundrel, you're at it again! You lure people out only to kill them, just like always! No matter how sweet and smooth things are at the beginning, do you have to make sure everyone is wiped out before you're satisfied?! Director Lin, are you suffering from some kind of serious illness? Do you have to kill them all to be satisfied?! Don't force me to kneel down and beg you!]
[Director Lin, there's just no way to deal with you. This time you've come up with another tragedy that's chilling to the core. It's like the tragic ending was already thrown in your face from the very beginning, you just didn't notice. By the time everyone's dead in the finale, you can't blame the director, since he'd been foreshadowing it since the very first episode.]
[There's a feeling of helplessness, like my hand can't even reach into the screen. Oh, heavens! If I'm guilty, punish me directly! Why send this devil, Director Lin, to torment me like this! Look at this show, it's clearly written as a war comedy, so who told Director Lin to make a comedy like this? Come out here, let's see if the audience won't beat him to death!]
The happier they were at the beginning, the more tragic it became when they thought about the young lives that had been lost. They competed to see who could dive the deepest and who could fish the best. They shared their thoughts on various ships and talked about how they would teach those foreign countries a lesson so that they wouldn't look down on them. They even planned to retire together on a small island in the future.
As these scenes are replayed, they are like shards of glass. The vibrant, colorful people in front of the screen will eventually only appear in an old black and white photograph. They don't even have any other photos left, only a bewildered graduation photo where they didn't even have time to find the camera.
The eldest sister was very brave and was the first to sacrifice herself. She thought she could protect her teammates, but after she and the second sister died, the cowardly third sister and the hapless fourth sister also went without hesitation. The word "fear" did not exist in their dictionary.
The unspoken feelings between the leader and the male protagonist, which went beyond friendship, sank with the ship to the mouth of the Yangtze River and were forever buried in the deep sea.
They could only hold the Yangtze River estuary to buy more opportunities for victory for the soldiers on land.
The fifth brother, who always liked to tattle, never had the chance to complain to the teacher on the island that the fleet and his teammates were being bullied by the enemy. The teacher could no longer hear the fifth brother's tattling, and they all became children of the sea.
The protagonist, this loser, took a gamble and blocked the Yangtze River estuary with his life. He'd never had good luck before, but that one in a million stroke of good fortune descended upon him at that moment, as if all his bad luck in his life was a prelude to this one. Of course, the seventh brother also went with his older siblings, unable to inherit their teacher's wish to strengthen the navy, but they made their choice for the future glory of the navy.
They protected peace and countless ordinary people. Even after the victory in the war, no one may remember them, but they had no regrets. They used their flesh and blood to protect the future glory of this land during that chaotic era.
In an instant, many people spontaneously went to the mouth of the Yangtze River to pay tribute to these heroes.
This TV series, "Waves and Fire," has become a huge hit, surpassing the popularity of Lin Xiaoxiao's three previous TV dramas. Its reach is enormous, with everyone from eighty-year-old grandmothers to toddlers able to hum a few lines of the theme song.
Some people even started creating fan art, and others edited videos to show the current strength of the Navy through the Seven Waves, portraying the Seven Waves as no longer weak waves, but a fearsome tsunami.
Lin Xiaoxiao was completely dumbfounded. She didn't think this was her fault. When she received a friendly greeting from Old Master Lin's secretary, she tried her best to explain, but the other party hung up as soon as he finished speaking, without giving her a chance to say that she wanted to go home and lie down.
When she received praise from above again, she numbly realized that this time her brother didn't even bother to greet her.
Lin Xiaoxiao received the greeting she least wanted, but did not receive the greeting she wanted.
Moreover, even if this drama becomes popular now, it won't earn much money, and it's still a long way from her 100 million.
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