Countdown to Guo Furong’s inn! A collective farewell spanning twenty years
Today, the topic "It's only 100 days before Guo Furong left Tongfu Inn" has been on the hot search list on Weibo, attracting attention from the entire network. This is not the trailer of a new drama, but a commemorative day that netizens spontaneously set for the classic plot in "Wulin Waizai" - in the timeline set by the drama, there are exactly one hundred days left before Guo Furong completes her servitude and leaves Tongfu Inn.
This creative topic initiated by fans has rapidly evolved into a collective memory spanning nearly twenty years. Under the topic, the audience not only revisited Guo Furong's growth trajectory from "male and male evil spirit" to diligent and choreographed, but also shared the clips of his life that the drama accompanied him. A netizen's comment expressed the voice of many people: "What we calculated is not Guo Furong's countdown, but the distance between ourselves and youth."
At the beginning of the story of "Wulin Waizhuan", Guo Furong had an unrealistic dream of a knight, mistakenly thought of Tongfu Inn as a black store and smashed the store, and eventually had to stay to work and pay off her debts. At first, she knew nothing and even tried every means to be lazy. Under Tong Xiangyu's guidance of "doing things with your hands rather than your mouth", she gradually understood the true meaning of responsibility, and grew from a spoiled young lady to a partner who dared to take responsibility. She eventually rejected the proposal of others to help her escape and chose to face her own fault. This journey made her realize the dangers of the world and the difficulty of becoming a hero, and she also found the belonging of life in the warm Tongfu Inn. Therefore, Guo Furong chose to stay in the inn later in the series, and this ending is even more precious.
"Wulin Waizhuan" was aired in 2006, and its success is no accident. When writing, screenwriter Ning Caishen reads to his wife every time he finishes writing a script, and uses the number of times she laughs as the criterion and repeatedly modifyes and polishes it. The series uses the past to satirize the present and explores the philosophy of life about responsibility, tolerance and down-to-earth in laughter, so that the audience can have new insights when they revisit it at different ages. Some viewers lamented that it was a comedy at first, but after watching it many years later, they realized that it contained the philosophy of life.
In fact, this is not the first time that the topic related to "Wulin Waizhu" has triggered an Internet craze. From "Wu Lin Wai Ji always reads new" to the character lines and lines, this work can always awaken the collective memory of a generation at a specific moment. This "100-day countdown" event is like a tacit secret code, allowing the guests of the "Tongfu Inn" scattered everywhere to gather together again. Everyone shared screenshots of their favorite clips and exchanged greetings with their lines in the play, as if they were performing a ceremony to slap their youth across the air. As the play says, "There are too many unsatisfactory things in this world, but your life still needs to continue." In today's rapidly changing, the story of Tongfu Inn still gives people the strength to continue moving forward with its unchanging warmth.
