The quality of domestic dramas is improving at a speed visible to the naked eye, especially the "Beginning", "Dream Hualu" and "Freesia Tips" launched in 2022 are all recognized as high-quality blockbusters. However, in addition to these themes, the blockbuster drama that really grasps the summer file and the opening season is undoubtedly a very low-key publicity, but the heat data is rising in "Punishment".
As a criminal investigation crime drama, "Punishment" successfully grabbed the audience's attention by breaking through the scale of the 2021 blockbuster drama "Sweeping Black Storm". With the development of the plot, the audience is more and more curious about the inner ghosts hidden in the dark line in the play, and more and more look forward to the extreme pull between Chang Zheng and the Zhao Xiaosheng family.
In addition to the main line of criminal investigation and anti-crime, the focus of today's plot is all in the infighting and game between the Zhao family. Especially the role of Zhao Pengchao, as the villain of Ming Huang, how to duel with the main party is the highlight of the plot.
From the current point of view, Zhao Pengchao still holds three life-saving straws in his hand, which can buy him time, and it is also a sharp weapon for him to balance Changzheng.
The first straw: the King
The identity of this king has not yet been revealed, but with Hana's suicide, the audience's suspicion that Hana is most likely the king has also been overturned. Logically, this "great king" has more real power than any inner ghost that has been exposed.
He is Chang Zheng's boss, and he is Chang Zheng's thigh that is difficult to twist. Although the audience knows that this umbrella will definitely be pulled out, he will be the focus of the next plot.
What is important is that when this "king" will strike and when he will help Zhao Pengchao at a critical time is still unknown.
The second straw: remembrance
Memorial is the girlfriend who has been in love with Chang Zheng for more than three years, although the plot focus of "Punishment" has hardly given the couple too many scenes of emotional preparation, but from the perspective of Chao Pengchao's efforts to envelop the memorial plot, she will also be a pawn used by Zhao Pengchao to balance Chang Zheng.
The key is that Chang Zheng's current position really can't give much companionship to commemorate. The two were in love for three years and two years, and Chang Zheng was so busy every day that he didn't have much time to take care of the memorial, which also gave Chao Peng the opportunity to take advantage of the void.
In the play, Zhao Pengchao can be said to be meticulous about the memorial, as the boss, he deliberately went to the door to comfort her when he was commemorating the rest of his feet, and helped her buy daily necessities, and also carefully found that the day of her menstrual period was coming, helping her buy a relatively private and ambiguous sanitary napkin.
At a glance, the domineering and gentle boss Zhao Pengchao is definitely the best boyfriend. However, Zhao Pengchao's purpose in approaching the memorial is very strong, and what he wants is to approach the memorial under the guise of being a good friend, brainwash the memorial, provoke her feelings with Chang Zheng, and make the memorial completely turn against him.
What Chang Zheng himself could not accept the most was actually having an affair with the Zhao family, and the commemoration was deeply involved step by step, which was doomed to the rupture of his feelings with Chang Zheng.
The third straw: Hana
This third life-saving straw is actually the biggest dilemma of Changzheng. In the previous plot, Chang Zheng's rejection of the Zhao family was quite obvious. At the family gathering, Hana's arrival makes Chang Zheng particularly happy, after all, from his point of view, Hana and his mother are very good friends.
But even so, when he knew that Zhao Pengchao had also been brought by Hana, he immediately turned his face. He welcomed Hana, but not Hana's son. What he didn't know was that his life itself was a buried scam, and he didn't want to have an affair with the Zhao family the most, but he was the Zhao family, he was Han Ya's biological son, and he was Zhao Pengchao's younger brother.
From the beginning, Zhao Pengchao wanted Chang Zheng to be grateful to himself, and at the time of the yacht explosion, he gave Chang Zheng a chance to get rid of his suspicions and left him a clue. I thought that everything he did could pull Chang Zheng into the game, but he underestimated the axis of Chang Zheng.
In the previous plot, the fourth elder had a scene where Zhao Xiaosheng was talking, but he had been painting, he had drawn four hands, but at this time, the second elder had already gone offline, and the extra one actually implied that he was ready to pull into the gang. From the beginning, he knew that Chang Zheng was his own brother.
From the perspective of the audience, Zhao Pengchao is protecting Chang Zheng, but the reason he does this is not because of brotherhood. From beginning to end, no matter what He did blatantly and the Zhao family's clamor, he could get Zhao Xiaosheng's tolerance. And Zhao Pengchao, as the person who Zhao Xiaosheng values most, is also the most wary person.
He was different from Chang Zheng, although they had the same mother, but Zhao Pengchao had no choice, he had to do something unsightly, but Chang Zheng did not use it. His mother's preference for Chang Zheng, and Chang Zheng's ability to stand fearlessly in the sun and uphold justice, are all places that make him dissatisfied.
He did not move Changzheng because Zhao Xiaosheng and Han Ya would not let him move Changzheng, and now that Hana had committed suicide because of guilt, self-blame or some other reason, Zhao Xiaosheng could naturally let go of his hands and feet.
Han Ya's selfishness at that time made the two brothers fight each other now, if Chang Zheng knew that he had the blood of the Zhao family on his body, it would be the real dilemma for him.
At the beginning, Zhao Pengchao knew that this was a means to destroy Chang Zheng, and he could move out of brotherhood, move out of blood and family affection, and let Chang Zheng obey. Of course, Chang Zheng, as the only character in "Punishment" who is clearly and decent from the beginning to the end, will never become a person of the Zhao family, but it is indeed very difficult for him to accept the facts and get out of the predicament.
Especially when he learned that the Zhao family could trample himself to death at any time, it was only because he shed the blood of the Zhao family that Zhao Xiaosheng had been conniving with him, and it was only the fact that he had been transferred from his post, Chang Zheng's sense of powerlessness would only be stronger.
Today, the plot of "Punishment" continues, and many fans of the drama are surprised and unable to speak after Chang Zheng's life is revealed. But the dilemma that Chang Zheng faced was not only his own lineage, but also more connections behind the Zhao Xiaosheng family, and more protective umbrellas, and those rats hidden in the dark he had to pull out one by one in order to return to Changwu.
It's just that on one side is justice, it's his own insistence, and on the other side is flesh and blood affection, whether he will make the so-called "no choice" choice like Zhao Pengchao, and join the Zhao family, which directly determines the direction of the plot.
And the author believes that as long as the plot after "Punishment" ensures the quality, the discussion data currently harvested by "Punishment" is only the beginning, and when this drama officially ends, word of mouth and popularity will have a higher peak. Finally, I also expect Chang Zheng to be able to adhere to his bottom line under Zhao Pengchao's layered layout.