The gospel of love
In 1999, writer Liao Yimei married the avant-garde theater director Meng Jinghui. After their honeymoon, Liao shut herself in her room for a month to write her first drama, about "trying to solidify the extremely powerful passion for love and record the passing of youth".
At the same time, Meng was exploring ways to make experimental plays become accepted by a wider audience. The two got together and their fruit was Rhinoceros in Love, which is arguably the most popular drama in China of the last 10 years and has been acclaimed as the "Bible of love".
The story is simple: Rhinoceros keeper Ma Lu falls in love with his next-door neighbor Ming Ming and does everything he can to win her heart. However, Ming loves another man who does not care about her. Ma's friends try their best to help him out. On a rainy night, the desperate Ma kills his rhinoceros and kidnaps Ming.
