Hu Ge, Yan Ni Portray Spring-Autumn Relationship in “Life Revelation”
In the currently filming television drama, Life Revelation <生活啟示錄>, mainland Chinese actor Hu Ge (胡歌) will portray a computer engineer who finds himself in a spring-autumn relationship with an older woman, played by mainland Chinese actress Yan Ni (閆妮).
Life Revelation follows the story of Yu Xiaoqiang (Yan Ni), an employee at the Redleaf Women’s Hospital in Shanghai. Initially married to a clothing businessman named Liu Guangyao (Guo Jinglin 果靜林), Xiaoqiang idles away as housewife. After seven years of marriage, she discovers that Guangyao was involved in an extramarital affair and thus files for divorce.
Xiaoqiang later meets Bao Jiaming (Hu Ge), who is six years her junior. Originally from Anhui, Jiaming refused to continue his parents’ tea business and moved to Shanghai to become a computer engineer. Although he and Xiaoqiang help each other through life’s twists and turns, his family is opposed to their relationship, especially when Xiaoqiang discovers that she is pregnant with her ex-husband’s child. However, Jiaming insists on taking on the role of the innocent child’s father and marries Xiaoqiang.
Known for her realistic yet lively depictions of family life, screenwriter Wang Liping (王麗萍) admitted that she has never personally been in a relationship with a younger man. “During filming, sometimes there would be people coming up to ‘show me’ how cougar relationships should be,” she shared. “But I think I can be bold and imaginative in things I have not experienced. Women, no matter what age they have reached, all possess love.”
Wang Liping also revealed that she wished to portray the occasionally awkward and annoying facet of spring-autumn relationships, since they are often romanticized in dramas and movies. “What I wanted to write about is after the enthusiasm fades,” she said, “and how the two must face the difference in wisdom and maturity levels, as well as the pressure from all sides of society.
“But I think that in any relationship, as long as you truly face its challenges head on, you can bear rich and blissful fruit.”
This article is written by Joanna for JayneStars.com.
Boring :/
I might check this one out because I want to see how Hu Ge will be like in a more matured minded man role, I just really hate his other game adapted wuxia characters
6 years age difference is nothing really.
What is considered a big age gap then? 10 years?
15+
Are you saying 10-12 years for example is ok?
it’s up to the individuals involved. A woman who is a youthful 45 may have more in common with a mature 30 year old guy than with one who’s 60 years old.