A relatively well-off family and a retired professor who is widowed in old age have sparked a discussion about the views of high-level intellectual men on love, marriage and family.

Do elderly people like Shen Zhuoran really exist in real life? Is a man like Shen Zhuoran, who has a huge contrast before and after his second marriage, real in real life?

As a daughter-in-law, Liu Lina, after seeing her father-in-law showing affection to Aunt Lian in front of her, and seeing the photo of her father-in-law helping Aunt Lian suck blood on her fingers in the circle of friends, she was jealous and envious, and she was dissatisfied with her husband's straight male performance.

But is Shen Zhuoran, who seems to be brave enough to express that the elderly also have love, is he really a positive man who is worthy of being emulated as we see?

In the eyes of the daughter-in-law, the combination of father-in-law and aunt is no longer a partner for the elderly to take care of each other, but contains the happy married life of middle-aged couples who have long lost their love.

Although her husband got up early and took on the burden of supporting the family, at the same time, she and her husband had already lost the flowers before and after falling in love.

Maybe what Liu Lina said is not wrong, her father-in-law's main task now is to maintain health, and he is bravely recovering those loves that have been lost for decades.

But is such a father-in-law really a good husband? Is such a father really a good man? Is such Shen Zhuoran really a "other man's husband" worthy of the envy of his daughter-in-law Liu Lina?

Because he met Aunt Lian, the father-in-law who was once depressed because of the loss of his mother-in-law "lived" like a dead tree in spring.

The degree of affection between the father-in-law and Aunt Lian not only makes the daughter-in-law envious, but also more likely to make many middle-aged couples envious and embarrassed, because this is what marriage should look like, and this is what love should look like.

From the few words that Liu Lina complained to her husband, I was keenly aware of the slightest mistake and problem.

Only at this time, the father-in-law who met Aunt Lian was really the envy of Liu Lina, who was her daughter-in-law; Only at this time, the father-in-law who met Aunt Lian showed that the elderly could show enviable love for the first time.

So is the current father-in-law, the current Shen Zhuoran, still the father-in-law who used to be in love with his ex-wife? Or is it the same university professor who is academically insightful enough to be able to give lectures everywhere after retirement?

Maybe not, maybe the Shen Zhuoran played by Zhang Guoli is essentially two completely different people from the Shen Zhuoran who has not shown us in front of us.

If the mother-in-law's living father-in-law has taken showing affection as a daily practice, then today, when the daughter-in-law sees the love between her father-in-law and Aunt Lian, she will not say such dissatisfied words to her husband.

If the father-in-law when the mother-in-law was alive had already tried to learn to cook and buy vegetables because of love, then the father-in-law who saw such a huge change today, as a daughter-in-law and mother-in-law, would not have such a huge reaction and surprise.

It can be seen that the father-in-law whose mother-in-law is still alive in Liu Lina's eyes is a "noble person" who opens his mouth for food and stretches out his hands for clothes, and a "career-oriented man" who does not touch the spring water with his fingers.

In Liu Lina's eyes, the former father-in-law is a traditional man who treats the family as a "hotel", a man who spends a lot of time in the study after returning home, and a man who has never shown so-called love with his mother-in-law.

But why did a year after the mother-in-law left, after the father-in-law met this empathetic aunt, the head nurse, the elderly man had such a huge change?

Is it just the superficial "the elderly should also have a happy remarriage life", but is it just that the "remarriage of the elderly is not just about finding a partner to live with" is so simple and direct as the play wants to express?

When we straighten out all these contrasts about Shen Zhuoran and his person, when we use a somewhat "malicious" mentality to figure out Shen Zhuoran, an old man who is nearly 70 years old.

You will find a problem, a question that somewhat "discredits" men or old men, and a question that is somewhat unfair to "intellectuals".

When it has become a habit to open your mouth for food and stretch out your hands for clothes, some people may make changes overnight for some reason, but the reason should never be because of love, especially the love that happens to the elderly.

If such a reason or reason can be established, then how to explain the love and affection between Shen Zhuoran and his ex-wife?

Shen Zhuoran, who has lived with his ex-wife all his life, has never made any changes because of love, and for him, until the last moment before his ex-wife left, everything she did for him was a matter of course.

But when Shen Zhuoran met the head nurse, it seemed that his life was pressed the reset button, and it seemed that he had opened all the modes that a young boy could express and do when chasing a girl.

Such a character setting seems to be expressing or discussing the elderly's concept of love and social inclusion, but it pushes the ex-wife who once took care of Shen Zhuoran into the abyss.

If Liu Lina's mother-in-law has a spirit in the sky, and if Shen Zhuoran's ex-wife sees the changes her husband has made for the head nurse, then what is everything she has done for him in her life?

Why has a man like Shen Zhuoran never expressed such a strong love to himself? Why did you never make yourself a bowl of "520 noodles"? Why did you never run to the vegetable market to buy groceries for yourself?

Why did this father-in-law, who was envied by his daughter-in-law, become a "other person's husband" who made his daughter-in-law envy him to drool after his second marriage?