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Wife commits adultery and gets pregnant. Husband apologizes to wife and begs her to come back
This show is primarily a glorification of adultery by Chinese women and shows contempt for decent, hard-working Chinese men who are doing their best to take care of their families.All Chinese dramas written by Chinese women encourage female adultery and portray such women as victims of men, and this show is no different.
Show is set against the backdrop of a team of MALE gynecologists/obstetricians and it fall into the typical trap of obsessing about the medical business and spends too much time on the medicine instead of the characters.
The male characters themselves are cheesy and are portrayed using the Chinese feminist stereotype of men who are SIMPS and cuckolds. All the men are feminized and behave like women, cry tears like women and not one has any testicles. They also follow the tired and false Chinese stereotype of getting drunk and not remembering anything the next day. Despite getting hammered with alcohol these drunk Chinese men can somehow defy the laws of biology and get an erection to make women pregnant. In real life no adult man is capable of performing (except horny teenagers overflowing with testosterone) when they are so drunk that they can't remember anything.
The female characters are the real men in this show. They aggressively scream, shout, criticize the men and treat them with contempt. And when these women are caught cheating, then they blame the men for causing the women to cheat. The men are all supposed to hide the fact that these women are committing adultery and no one is allowed to reveal the women's cheating to their husbands/boyfriends/family et. because then the women would be humiliated and suffer consequences, which is not allowed according to the rules of Chinese feminist writers.
The men are also required to apologize to their cheating wives and then beg these adulterous women to forgive the men and go back to them.
The LM is the classic Chinese SIMP - soft spoken, gentle, works hard to earn and take care of his wife, always begs his wife for affection and has his tail tucked between his legs like a scared dog. He also has no TESTOSTERONE and is essentially 100% woman in a man's body.
The LM's wife hates the fact that her husband is doing a good job of taking care of the family, so she goes out and has sex with another man and gets pregnant by him. This is discovered by her parents, sister, the LM's male and female colleagues.
But no one is ALLOWED to reveal the cheating wife's actions to the LM because the rules of Chinese feminist writers say that a cheating wife is NEVER wrong and cannot be held accountable.
The only female character who actually behaves like a real woman would have made a decent wife is ostracized and isolated because she would have made a great wife for the LM, by taking care of him and the house. She is also considered evil since she cooks for the LM and truly loves him. But she and the LM are not allowed to get together since that would humiliate the cheating wife. This female character's was portrayed by an actress who stole the spotlight from the LF by the power of her performance.
So, the LM is now supposed to be so much in love with a woman who cuckolded him and got pregnant by her lover, that the LM has to apologize to his cheating wife and beg her to take him back. Which is what happens finally when he marries the cheating wife again and the poor girl who truly loves him is thrown out.
Ultimately, this drama is a showcase for the left-over women of China who are told that all their cheating and bad behavior is not really bad and the women do not have to feel guilty or change their behaviours. These adulterous women are told that fault lies entirely with the men in their lives for causing the wife to commit adultery. So the men must beg for forgiveness and the adulterous women can then magnanimously take their poor husbands back.
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