The urban emotional drama "A Good Life" starring Sun Li and Dong Zijian is being broadcast on the prime time of Youku and CCTV Channel 8. The unconventional urban life theme is full of strong fireworks. The high-density plot is rapidly advancing in a light rhythm, and it is rare to integrate relaxed and beautiful appearance into the expression of urban issues.

　　The drama tells the story of the gold medal insurance worker Hu Manli (played by Sun Li) who suddenly had a life crisis, his career and marriage both fell to a trough, and unexpectedly worked with insurance little white Xue Xiaozhou (played by Dong Zijian). The two gradually became excellent partners of both teachers and friends from tit-for-tat enemies, and finally each gained a "pretty good life".

　　The story begins with dense and strong plot elements. The seemingly smooth insurance queen is intervened by a third party. Her husband's resilience has become the first level to fight Hu Manli; her career is maliciously suppressed by her peers, from stealing professional honors to revoking her professional qualifications, Hu Manli's professional pride is also facing destruction.

　　Compared with traditional urban themes, the heroine suffered this double blow, or had to fight those who intervened for 300 rounds, work hard to save her marriage, or have to pull back and forth with competitors in the workplace, and staged a "palace scheming" in the workplace. "A Good Life" chose the third solution. Hu Manli was not confused by the past crisis and quickly separated from her husband and divorced. At the same time, she actively looked for a solution to return to the insurance industry. By chance, she joined the insurance newcomer Xue Xiaozhou and successfully started her second spring in her career.

　　This full-fire and unyielding female protagonist model breaks away from the inherent female protagonist's character line and truly finds various possibilities for life and career from the perspective of women realizing themselves. When dealing with the relationship with the male protagonist Xue Xiaozhou, the drama did not follow the inherent routine, which made the two develop so-called feelings. Instead, it transformed the mutual appreciation of the two down-and-out people into mutual help from their workplace partners.

　　"Don't talk about sister-brother relationship" is precisely the biggest innovation of the drama. In the view of screenwriter Fei Huijun, the character Hu Manli is the cornerstone of the original script, and there is no specific character prototype. It is based on the commonality of women of the same age around her, showing the tenacity, kindness and vitality of mature women. "Hu Manli came out of the Shanghai alley. She is a working woman full of urban aura. She and Xue Xiaozhou are a fun character structure, which is about how two people who are completely different can save each other."

　　In the play, Sun Li's performance breaks the limits of self-setting. At first glance, Hu Manli, who is somewhat "superior", is good at self-setting, is a little vain but bold and persevering. After encountering the trough of life, he starts a war with great success and will never be internally fussed. Hu Manli's "smooth female lead" attitude is not based on the heroine's character, but comes from an optimistic attitude towards life. His market and lifestyle are the source of the characters' vitality. In the play, Hu Manli's success is not attributed to the "golden finger" of luck. Instead, through the perspective of newcomer Xue Xiaozhou, he truly realized the efforts and talent behind Hu Manli becoming a gold medal sales in the insurance industry. This added a basis for the seemingly speeding characters. Hu Manli's success theory becomes credible, and it leaves the traditional suspended workplace narrative logic of urban dramas.

　　In the opinion of director Wang Jun, "A Good Life" is not a "sweet drama" in the traditional sense, but a warm and humorous realistic method to resolve the suffering in life. "If it is a cool drama, the heroine should have cheated and solved all problems in a few seconds. But we are writing very realistically, how she climbed up from the trough step by step, every step and every inch is very difficult. So I think it is still a livelihood drama full of warm realism, which is very healing." Beijing Evening News reporter Li Xiazhi

[Editor in charge: Tang Wei]