The Image of a Lady is an urban life drama directed by Wan Qian and Mrs Xing, especially Gao Yiren and Wang Mian. The play was broadcast on Hunan Satellite TV on February 6, 2023, and simultaneously broadcast on Mango TV.
Workaholic Wei Yao is a female manager in the business department of a company. She was so eager for KPI that she realized that the relationship between husband and wife had become estranged. Most of the departments she directed in "Female Soldiers" also have women-specific problems: pregnancy, wet nurses and hidden pregnancy. At this time, Wei Yao, who had always wanted children, found herself pregnant during her career advancement. After learning that Wei Yao was pregnant, her boss, Ding Lan, hired An Xin as the Minister of Commerce and found an opponent for Wei Yao.
An Xin is not only qualified, but also blessed by her husband and a dink. It seems that she can perfectly avoid some difficulties of working women. After the struggle, Wei Yao chose to have a baby. It was this decision that changed everything. In life, Wei Yao found her affection and trust for her husband. At work, she works hand in hand with her rivals to help female colleagues facing different problems.
Drama evaluation
The Lady's Character has an insight into the crux of women's survival dilemma, but there is no selling anxiety or dreaming out of thin air. Instead, we use a warm, bright, relaxed and warm style to find ways to break away from convention in the process of discussing women's growth. While presenting the dilemma of women's growth, the play also provides an answer to alleviate and break through the dilemma with its own understanding.
This drama has expanded from women's workplace dilemma to a deep and acute social problem. It neither evades nor whitewashes the real female experience in reality, but deconstructs it in a warm way, focusing on how women can find the best solution to their own life confusion. This is the concern for women conveyed by the novel "The Lady's Character" in its own way after awakening women's spiritual shock with the dilemma of survival.
Stills show the truest inner confusion and confusion of contemporary women. The narrative style is not sharp, but the meaning is still sharp. While expanding the discussion space of women's growth, it also shows women's multiple possibilities in the face of life choices such as workplace and family, self and fertility, love and marriage from multiple levels.