$30M Fairytale Wedding of Ming Xi & Mario Ho: The Real Life "Enemy To Lover" Romance

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How does romance-trope culture explain the 'enemy-to-lover' setup introduced at the start?

Stephanie Soo 0:21

You know how it goes when you read those romance novels? I don't know why people complain about tropes. I love a good trope. I think it's perfectly reasonable that when people check into a hotel, the entire hotel, they book two rooms, but everything is sold out. And someone working the front desk, someone working reservations, decided that they were only going to book one of the rooms. And so they have to share a hotel room. I think that is something that probably happens to one out of one people in their daily lives.

Unknown 0:49

I don't even think that.

Stephanie Soo 0:51

ever happens no the worst is like i read a book and i love this book okay so this is not me dogging on this book but the book was like no not only does this hotel not have any rooms but all of the neighboring hotels like they're all booked out i don't know if the fucking fifa world cup was in town but everything was booked out and so they had to share a room together no and i think You know what? I'm not even going to go down that road, but I ate that book up. I loved it. I wanted them to do it. I wanted them to boink in that one bed trope, but they never do because that's the whole point of the trope. Soulmates.

Unknown 1:23

So what did they do?

Stephanie Soo 1:26

They're just like trying not to boink. whole time they're not boinking they're just trying not to boink and it's the trying not to boink that is hotter than boinking what does that mean though what do you mean who does that mean they're trying not to boink honey so what do they do Like they're in bed and their fingers brush each other. Or like the AC is broken and it's blasting AC so they're cold. And she's shivering and she's gonna get sick. She's gonna get sick, honey. And he's just like this huge hunk of mass that's just radiating heat. He's basically a furnace. And the only way to survive Saber is to cuddle. They do but it's not like they don't neither of them don't want to they say they don't want to Yeah, yeah, but she's probably doing the butt thing, you know Just so you know if I say I don't want to cuddle but I'm doing the butt thing I'm trying to cuddle That's one of my favorite tropes I also I think so

Stephanie Soo 2:49

no you know the butt thing where you're cuddly and the butt my butt just happens to perfectly land on your private parts and it's sticking out in an unnatural curve because when have i ever laid down like that when have i ever stood like that i'm not built like that right but the butt thing i like that one I also think soulmates are overrated. I think the idea that there's only one person out for you in this world is just unfeasible, unrealistic.

Georgie Crawford 3:21

Why choose?

Stephanie Soo 3:22

No, I don't really like why choose. However, faded mates. They're not soulmates. It's different. Okay, soulmates, you meet them and you're like, this is the love of my life. I don't like that. I want them to fucking hate each other. I want them to despise each other. I want them to go to hell and back and then decide, you know what? After I boinked you a little bit, you're kind of hot. And I think we're fated mates. Fated mates is so good. But that's not the point. That's not the point of this video. I mean, I'm just talking about romance books because there is a man in China right now. You know, I'm just kidding that everyone is saying, you know, no one really lives up to these romance novels, main male characters.

Stephanie Soo 4:10

However, this guy might this guy might like he might burn an entire kingdom down to be with his girl like he might do that. He's got like a vibe to him. He looks like he walks like it's heavy, they say. Talking about my husband. No, I'm just kidding. No, I'm not kidding. But unfortunately, I'm not talking about him today. But in the realistic setting, it doesn't make any sense. Have you looked at what mafia bosses look like? Have you looked at who ran like the Gambino crime family? I mean, they're not unattractive, but they're... There's something, okay? There's something to look at. There's something to look at. Like you really have to have a lot of complex thoughts to make it work in your head. They're definitely the people that you wouldn't even show the picture to your friends.