The eighth episode of "Mao Liar" is the official beginning of the main plot of the entire drama.
Although there are many plots related to the main line in the first few episodes, they are scattered here and there. Most of them are hints and foreshadowing. The confrontation between the protagonist group and the Fox Organization is more deliberately done by the second boss who wants to blackmail Chen Dong.
And with Zhao Ning offline and the second master in charge of the crime, the main villain of the whole drama, the fox boss Geng Xiaohui, appeared, which kicked off the main plot.
At the same time, it also means that "Mao Liar" has begun to enter its climax...
At the beginning of the eighth episode, Xiaobao and Dongdong made a little extra money. When Dongdong finally followed the fat sheep to get the money, he was knocked unconscious. When he woke up, he saw the face of a gentle young man wearing glasses.
Looking at him expressionlessly.
When Dongdong looked at the gentle young man, he was dumbfounded - because this young man was exactly the same as his vegetative brother lying on the hospital bed.
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In the first few episodes, "Mao Liar" successively talked about the past and current situation of the protagonist group, explaining why they took the road of liars, which can be regarded as enriching the character design.
For example, the heroine An Ning's parents have been at odds since she was a child. The couple quarrels every day, and the family is full of quarrels and confrontations all the time.
Growing up in such a family environment caused An Ning to have an indifferent personality and extreme thoughts. At the same time, his lack of love caused him to attach great importance to relationships.
She became a liar because Zhao Ning was a good sister. Later, Zhao Ning quit. She was used to the life of a liar. She didn't want to disturb Zhao Ning, who wanted to be an ordinary person, and couldn't bear to leave the rest of the team, so she continued to stay in the team.
Needless to say, Xiaobao comes from a family of liars.
Li Wei also mentioned before that his parents divorced and he had a falling out with his family because of the Tsinghua University entrance examination. He moved out and joined the team to earn living expenses.
As for Xing Dongdong, it can be said that besides Zhao Ning, he is the character with the most background scenes in the previous episodes. There are several flashbacks involving him.
It turns out that Xing Dongdong has a younger brother who is in a vegetative state. Their family had a car accident, his parents died, and his younger brother became a vegetative state. Dongdong lost part of his memory and forgot many things.
Without his memory, Dongdong had no academic qualifications and could not find a serious job, so he could only make a living by stealing. Later, he met Zhao Ning and others and joined the team, which stabilized him.
However, because his younger brother is in a vegetative state and needs various drugs to maintain his vitality, his monthly medical expenses are like a mountain on Xing Dongdong.
Because he was too short of money, Xing Dongdong could only make extra money privately, and repeatedly violated Zhao Ning's rule of not cheating honest people. Dongdong had a strong self-esteem and was unwilling to explain, which eventually led to a breakup between the two and Xing Dongdong quit the team.
Fortunately, An Ning was careful and discovered Dongdong's secret, which helped the two people get back together after their breakup. Zhao Ning also deducted a portion of his dividends to support Xing Dongdong.
With Zhao Ning's help, Xing Dongdong no longer has to act privately to pay for his brother's medical expenses, but occasionally he is a little stretched.
Coupled with the lack of money and ruthlessness before, Xing Dongdong developed a money-loving and stingy character, and became the number one hero in the protagonist group.
Moreover, because Jiang Chao, who plays Xing Dongdong, had previously played Li Dazui in "Wulin Gaiden", both characters love money and are relatively rough and reckless, so they have certain similarities.
So every time Xing Dongdong has a similar financial obsession and reckless plot, the barrage will show "Big Mouth Possession" and "Li Big Mouth Behavior".
Even the drama "Mao Liar" has had several linkages with "Wulin Gaiden".
Once Xing Dongdong was cooking and boasted that he must have been a cook in his previous life; another time when the protagonist group was having dinner, "Wulin Gaiden" was playing on the TV, and Xing Dongdong complained about Tong Xiangyu's stinginess.
In addition to "Wulin Gaiden", there are many similar linkages with other mountain and river dramas. After all, it is an urban drama, with a wide range of jokes, and the audience will not be distracted by watching it.
The screenwriting department of Shanhe drama particularly likes collaborations and will secretly bury jokes when given the right opportunity. The audience loves this trick.
There are also some specialized film and television UP masters who edit these linked plots and make a collection called [Mountain-River-Universe], which has a considerable number of views.
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Back to the main text of the book, there is such a detailed background behind the character Xing Dongdong, which made many viewers realize that his identity is not simple.
Although "Mao Liang" has just been aired, it has already initially demonstrated the domineering style of "without a line, a frame is useless".
Zhao Ning's Revenge interspersed the first six episodes, with his father jumping off a building for less than 3 seconds. An Ning's parents didn't even show their faces, only the noisy quarrel that An Ning recalled.
As for Xing Dongdong, the vegetative younger brother, not only did he spend time introducing him, but he also filmed a scene where Xing Dongdong went to visit his younger brother to reflect the relationship between the two brothers.
In addition to this younger brother who is in a vegetative state, Xing Dongdong's amnesia also makes him mysterious.
Moreover, Xing Dongdong had secretly used his family photo to ask Know-how Mao San. The man in this photo was suspected to have a beast-shaped symbol on the sleeve of Xing Dongdong's father.
I wanted to see if I could get some information to remind myself of something.
Mao San told him that this symbol is "狋". According to legend, a thousand wolves and a thousand foxes must be crossed to produce an 狋.
The creature is cunning and cruel by nature. It is born as a strategist for the wolf pack. It is rumored that when Duke Kaishen retreated from the mainland, he formed a secret intelligence organization named Ao.
Later, the Nong organization was disbanded for some reasons, and its members were scattered all over the world, either black or white, good or gangsters, and the Nong organization became history.
Mao San also boldly made a conjecture that the predecessor of the Fox organization, which has become very popular on the road in the past two years, is probably Yan.
Car accident, amnesia, mysterious organization, suspected predecessor of the Fox Organization...
It's hard not to make people guess about Xing Dongdong's identity. Tiaohu and Douhua even posted various analysis posts speculating on the plot, and everyone unanimously agreed.
The boss of the Fox organization who has never appeared will be the key figure to solve the mystery of Xing Dongdong's life experience.
Wu Chuo, who had joined in the fun a lot, also thought so. He had been wondering who the boss fox was, based on his own analysis.
The fox boss was probably friends with Xing Dongdong's father. In order to fight for power, he killed Xing Dongdong's family in a car accident. The subsequent plot should be about Xing Dongdong avenging his parents with the help of the protagonist group.
However, in the eighth episode, "Mao Liar" slapped him in the face, telling him that the screenwriter's imagination was far greater than he imagined.
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This gentle young man who looks exactly like Xing Dongdong's vegetative brother turns out to be Geng Xiaohui, the boss of the Fox Organization.
This result, which no one expected, left the audience confused. Also confused was Xing Dongdong, who had lost his memory.
Is it possible that the boss of the fox organization in front of him is also his younger brother?
Did he lose his memory and forget about this younger brother?
No, although he forgot some things, he did remember his brother who was in a vegetative state and his dead parents, so there was no reason to forget his other brother.
Could it be that this younger brother has been separated from their family since he was a child, so he has no memory?
Dongdong, who was confused, didn't have time to ask, but he saw the gentle young man letting his men leave, and then stabbed Xing Dongdong viciously with a dagger.
Fortunately, the boss fox had brought the vegetative brother to the scene. Although the vegetative brother could not move, he was still conscious.
Perhaps it was a moment of crisis that opened up the two channels of Ren and Du, and the vegetative brother woke up and tried his best to save Xing Dongdong.
The vegetative brother had just woken up and was very weak. He was relying on all his strength. He and the fox boss were afraid of hurting him, so they just held the fox boss back and let Dongdong escape in the chaos.
Because the fox boss had transferred all his subordinates before, Dongdong escaped successfully and was rescued by the protagonist group and sent to the hospital.
Due to being stabbed, Dongdong suffered severe bleeding and was in urgent need of blood transfusion, and Dongdong happened to have extremely scarce panda blood.
This point has been foreshadowed before, not only by Dongdong, but also by his brother who was in a vegetative state. Dongdong also said with a smile that if the hospital didn't happen to have stock at the time, both his brothers would have died in the car accident.
The hospital does not have a stock of panda blood, so the protagonist group can only contact volunteers through the hospital's information.
At this time, the fox boss sent his vegetative brother to the hospital who was accidentally injured during the fight. Seeing this, he sent people to cause trouble for the protagonist group, preparing to kill Dongdong.
So most of the eighth episode is about the protagonist group and the fox organization competing for panda blood volunteers.
After Xiaobao and others finally defeated the fox's plot and recruited panda blood volunteers, Dongdong no longer needed them.
It turns out that the vegetable brother learned about Xing Dongdong and took advantage of the fox boss to go out and found the unconscious Dongdong despite the obstruction of the fox's men.
Dongdong lost his memory, but his vegetative brother did not. He roughly knew some of the fox boss's secrets, but he didn't tell them directly. He just said that Dongdong didn't know for the best.
Then, in order to save Dongdong, and unwilling to be mixed up between the two brothers, he suffered from various emotions such as escape, relief, and guilt.
The younger brother who was in a vegetative state committed suicide by stabbing his vital organs, creating a certain death situation and forcing the doctor to transfuse his blood to Dongdong before he died.
The vegetative brother died, and Xing Dongdong was reborn. The angry boss fox told the protagonist group that he would kill Xing Dongdong if it weren't for the orders from above.
Even so, with him around, even if Xing Dongdong is alive, it is equivalent to being dead...
Moreover, at the end of the eighth episode, Shao Zhuang also appeared. He and the fox boss seemed to be very familiar with each other, but also seemed to be somewhat hostile. The two of them obeyed the orders of "the boss" and each had their own plans for the protagonist group.
The conversation between the two people for just a few minutes added several layers of fog to the already chaotic plot.
But I have to say that the appearance of the fox boss Geng Xiaohui, although not amazing, is definitely complex in design.
His dual identity as a college student and the boss of a scammer organization, as well as his grievances and grudges with Xing Dongdong, made many viewers remember him.
Shao Zhuang, on the other hand, still followed a mysterious route. He was ambiguous with the protagonist group at the beginning, but then he had a heated fight with the fox boss, leaving countless viewers guessing whether he was evil or not.
It is precisely these pitfalls that make the audience scratch their heads and wait for the update of the next episode of "Mao Liar"...
