From the three-minute kiss scene igniting expectations, to the early screening finale;
After the launch of "Love Only", the popularity remained high, and it even received a score of 8.3 on Douban, stepping onto the throne of the annual love drama.
It seems that recent domestic romance dramas favor sibling love, and dramas of the same type have emerged in recent years, with uneven quality:
There are out-of-the-beaten;
There are also spicy ones;
Not every episode of "sibling love" captures the core of love, and many episodes only focus on "sibling", forgetting that "love" is the part that the audience wants to watch the most.
In the hands of the screenwriters who once created the blockbuster drama "Thirty Only", sibling love began with an ordinary encounter and slowly climbed the tip of every audience's heart.
Sister is the 32-year-old social animal sister Liang Youan (played by Zhou Yutong).
Liang Youan is already an old qualification who is familiar with the road in the workplace, after all, the position of special assistant of the president faces triviality and helplessness every day.
Liang Youan doesn't want to be trapped in the position of special assistant all the time to bury his talent, but it's a pity that the boss Jiang always draws one big and round cake after another:
After following this project, I will transfer you to a job.
The younger brother is just 22-year-old ordinary badminton player Song Sanchuan (played by Wu Lei).
As a professional athlete, Song Sanchuan is nameless, and he will miss the opportunity to make a name for himself forever.
Unfortunately, his mother left him with an indelible heart disease, and as long as the score reached 18:18 in the arena, his form would plummet.
I want to win, but I lost 21 games in a row, my heart is not going, and Song Sanchuan will always be the crane tail of the badminton team.
Meet, at the scene of a marathon.
Liang Youan's company sponsors the marathon, and Song Sanchuan works part-time as a runner in order to earn extra money - "closed rabbit".
Who knew that on the day of the race, the organizer required that the closed rabbit must run with rabbit ears.
Song Sanchuan's heart of a straight man of steel was crushed by pink rabbit ears and resolutely refused!
The organizer made a killer "Liang Youan".
Facing a beautiful, decent, sensible, cute sister, he personally ripped off the pink bow on the rabbit's ear in front of his face, and then put on a corgi sticker... Song Sanchuan immediately withdrew his refusal.
Attached to Corgi's rabbit ears, it was suddenly full of masculinity.
From the beginning of the meeting, the fate between the two was wonderful:
Liang Youan's company was smeared by the dummy incident, and Song Sanchuan recognized at a glance that the wig on the dummy's head was made in his own store;
Liang Youan's company wants to promote potential athletes, and the selection of people is selected Song Sanchuan's teammates;
Liang Youan encountered the betrayal of a potential athlete and lost his job, a part-time dog walker was tragically slipped by a dog, Song Sanchuan met by chance in time, and also taught the skills of walking a dog...
Audiences who chase more romance dramas understand that when the male and female protagonists begin to be ambiguous, the world will create opportunities for them to fall in love.
As a sibling love drama, "Love Only" is no different from other dramas:
are all handsome men and beautiful women group CP;
are all ambiguous limit pulling of brothers and sisters;
They are all from workplace frustration to workplace love.
Why did "Love Only" receive such widespread popularity and a super high rating of 8.3?
Under the seemingly similar characters and plots, the series has a warm power that really brings the audience a feeling of healing.
The realism of life and workplace has poked many migrant workers in big cities.
"Love Only" does not hide the location of the story, but directly shows that the story takes place in Shenzhen.
The real place name has disappeared in domestic dramas for too long, and the word "Shenzhen" can bring the audience not only the association of the city, but even the breeze, smell, and temperature, which will double the audience's perception of the picture and plot.
The two protagonists are also not so glamorous that they float over the city:
Liang Youan did not smash and shout in the office like the big heroines in other workplace suspension dramas.
She wore casual clothes, was called by one phone call after another to exhaustion, no matter how much effort was put in, the boss would erase all his words, only the posture of the back pot was so professional and shiny.
She is closer to the emotional state of the social animals of large companies, while being scolded by the boss to cover her face, while remaining calm, emotionally stable to arrange work, earning a salary that is not astronomical, living a tired and ordinary day.
Only migrant workers understand that such Liang Youan really exists in every office building, like being right next to every audience, like the person who is staring at the screen and chasing the drama.
Song Sanchuan is not a rising star who is sought after by thousands of people and knows how to play sports. He has talent and heart disease, no results and no backstage, sitting on the cold bench on the team for many years, and often being bullied and ostracized by his teammates.
Two people who are not successful meet and meet, the plot will not appear to spend thousands of dollars to contract fish ponds for you, the city and ordinary on the characters let them see each other clearly in an equal posture, appreciate each other, and then warm each other.
The palace tyrant or domineering president-style love story only has the stimulation of curiosity, in the ambiguity between Song Sanchuan and Liang Youan, there is no condescending compassion, nor the absurdity of humble prayers, and love returns to the most authentic and beautiful state - equality.
Because of this, although the plot is slow to heat, the audience feels the healing brought by realism.
The realism of the concept of love poked more romance lovers.
Domestic romance dramas always stage plots that make people daunted by love, either mother-in-law and mother chickens fly and dogs jump, or there are always villains to intervene.
Liang Youan and Song Sanchuan cleverly avoided those clichéd bloody pits from the point of view:
Liang Youan grew up in a divorced family, his father cheated on him, his mother hated him, and always talked about "don't get married, don't have children" to educate Liang Youan.
Faced with an incompetent father, a stepmother who complains a lot, and a maverick stepsister, Liang Youan indifferently draws the emotional boundaries between each other, without so many expectations for family affection, nor does he have a grudge against the past.
When Liang Youan went to study abroad, her father lent her 300,000 yuan in tuition. When Liang Youan returned to China to work, her father and stepsister Peaches frequently asked her for money, she did not refuse, but she recorded them one by one, until the total was enough for 300,000 yuan to tell her father that they now owed each other.
Liang Youan, who can calmly handle it in family affection, faced Song Sanchuan's pursuit and chose to refuse without surprise.
She understands that love is a double-edged sword that can hurt people, so she will never rush into love, take a step back and make a prudent decision, which is the most responsible way to deal with each other, and it is also the choice that is most in line with the "sister" character.
Song Sanchuan also grew up in a broken family, and the tiger mother was full of expectations for him, but escaped and left him at the most critical time, leaving him to be raised by his stepfather, who was not related by blood.
The missing mother symbolizes his undesirable maternal love and affection, and the demons of 18:18 trap him forever in the position of a loser.
Until Liang Youan blocked the scoreboard, this scene symbolized that Liang Youan filled the wound in his heart, the wound that was abandoned.
Love came into existence smoothly, and as a younger brother of youthful vitality, Song Sanchuan won the favor of the audience with his absolute "non-greasy".
Without machismo-style stubbornness and encompassing, let alone the fooling and unreasonable behavior of naïve children, Song Sanchuan shows the choices that a responsible man should make when facing love:
I will grow into your strength.
There is also another "divorced" couple in the play, Liang Youan's boss Jiang Zong and his wife, which resonated with countless audiences in the bridge of discussing divorce.
Mr. Jiang and his wife live in villas, drive luxury cars, and have no worries about food and clothing. When the wife filed for divorce, the dialogue between the two people broke the truth of the end of the marriage:
Marriage is not the graveyard of love, because when love dies, marriage becomes unsustainable.
A wife needs emotional comfort, she needs emotional value as a person.
Mr. Jiang only equated home with "firewood, rice, oil and salt, clothing, food, housing, and transportation", and he couldn't understand his wife's demand that she still need such a thing as emotion, and once thought that his wife must be cheating when she said this.
From a divorce scene, it can be seen that the drama's view of love and marriage are very correct, whether it is love or marriage, if you want to be happy, you need two people to respect and care for each other, which is the simplest and most straightforward truth, but the most easily forgotten truth.
Recall that before the start of the series, how many viewers were attracted by the red-faced three-minute kiss scene, and how many people were given the healing power of the plot of "Love Only".
As an audience who has been following the drama for two weeks, I sincerely appeal:
First, I hope that there will be more and more such warm and healing good dramas;
Second, don't delete those kiss scenes!