Da Tsing Yi’s idol drama! Jiang Wenli and Ming Dao are in love, it’s really hard for a middle-aged actress

"Love Around the Corner," starring Jiang Wenli and Ming Dao, has just begun airing on Oriental TV. The drama tells the story of a divorced urban man and woman with a baby who accidentally move into the same new house, gradually develop love through getting along day and night, and finally reorganize the family to find happiness.

The actual filming time of this drama was actually in 2016, seven years ago. At that time, Jiang Wenli was 49 years old and Ming Dao was 36 years old. Now, seven years have passed.

Some ridiculed the play as the first generation of Tai Tsing Yi’s oblivion idol drama; some complained that they felt like sons-in-law and mothers-in-law; some were more able to play, and a new term was born directly: milk uncle love.

No matter how the plot is interpreted, whether the acting skills of the two actors are qualified or not, because only a few episodes have been broadcast so far, and everyone cannot make a complete judgment on their next.

Besides, even if you don’t watch the drama, everyone can think that a modern urban drama that has been suppressed for seven years has long been out of touch with the current era and society, and there is nothing that can resonate with everyone. Therefore, in terms of plot content, this drama has been eliminated from this track.

What makes people even more difficult to accept and watch is the male and female protagonists who are not in the same dimensional wall, namely Jiang Wenli and Ming Dao.

When we talk about Jiang Wenli, we can blurt out many classic dramas, such as "The Little Woman Under the Gate of the Sun", "Happiness Knocks on the Door", "See You in Heaven", "Golden Wedding", "The Door of the Great House" and so on. She has also won round after round of awards for domestic TV dramas. Therefore, she has always stood in the first echelon of domestic big green clothes.

Look at Ming Dao over there, it’s the famous domineering CEO ceiling. In his BGM, no one can beat him. It’s been almost 20 years since "Prince Becomes a Frog" aired, and no other male star’s appearance can overshadow his momentum.

Overall, the two of them still had good acting skills. Moreover, there were so many representative works, and most netizens still had some filters for these two actors. Why did the two of them cooperate in a drama, but everyone rejected it so much? Not only did they reject it, but everyone also took stock of many siblings who were going to meet everyone in the next movie and television dramas, expressing fear for the latter.

Is Jiang Wenli looking too old? I’m afraid I can’t agree with this. Jiang Wenli is definitely not a woman of nearly 60 years old among actors of the same age. She is well maintained, has a unique temperament, and has no words about her figure.

However, everyone felt that they were incompatible. Thinking about it from another angle, there were countless romantic dramas similar to the 13-year gap between male and female actors. In a drama, there were male actors who were more than 10 years older than the female lead.

This was not the case for Yan Chengxu, who had become popular due to "Summer Flower" during this period of time. If he had worked harder back then, he could have been the father of this heroine. However, people like them started acting in idol dramas in their 20s and continued to act until they were in their 40s.

The disturbing thing was that Zhang Jiayi, Wang Xiaocheng, Li Yitong, and Chen Jianbin, the latter pair’s co-starring "Love Me, Don’t Think Too Much" was particularly famous. No matter who saw the moving picture of Chen Jianbin holding Li Yitong’s cheek and kissing him, they would feel both physical and psychological discomfort.

Strangely enough, the most common complaint was not that Chen Jianbin was not suitable for a romantic drama, but rather that Li Yitong and He De had such good resources to cooperate with Chen Jianbin? A beautiful actress in the prime of her life dedicated her youth to kissing a man 20 years older than her. In the end, it was outrageous for everyone to laugh at her.

The perspective is on Jiang Wenli and Ming Dao. The matching of this actor who is now ridiculed by Uncle Niu is ultimately because the current market is not friendly to female characters. Combined with the inventory of the past, we have left too many stereotypes and fixed labels on Jiang Wenli: daughter-in-law, little woman, big woman, hard-working woman, all set in the background of the era drama.

So, in the real modern urban drama, no screenwriter has provided a good model for what women of this age are doing. Most of them are mothers-in-law, so if they want to completely reverse the situation and create an innovation, the screenwriters will become nondescript if they make a big deal.

It can be seen that Jiang Wenli chose this drama to challenge and break through herself. However, the domestic script obviously did not prepare this springboard.