"I almost married a lawyer once. I was nursing him through his appendectomy.
"We were about to be engaged, but it developed into peritonitis, and then he passed away."
"Then he was a lucky lawyer indeed."
On stage, the main character made his appearance, sitting in a car and delivering a few simple lines of dialogue.
"Hahaha…"
The audience roared with laughter, amused by the male lead's sharp and biting words.
They had never seen a protagonist like this—old, overweight, suffering from illness, and with a tongue laced with barbs.
He was a far cry from the typical protagonist of most plays.
With the exception of pure farces, where the protagonist might be made into a bit of a clown,
in other genres—be it drama, tragedy, or romance—the protagonists were almost always positive, optimistic, resilient, and full of heroic spirit.
