Because of Japan's surrender, Grandma Zhu Si's real estate in Chongqing fell apart and so went bankrupt.
In The Paper Drunk, Fourth Grandma Zhu is a celebrity in Chongqing's social scene. She is a young granny of a certain powerful family, yet she is restless. She has eight faces, turns over the clouds and has her hands full, and sets up gambling in her mansion to entertain guests.
She has a group of well-trained red-pink corps under her command, which makes many successful people treat her gold grotto as a tender place. She bought gold reserve certificates and made the most of them by borrowing chickens to lay eggs. However, when Japan surrendered, Grandma Zhu's real estate in Chongqing fell into disrepair and eventually went bankrupt.
Expanded:
There is no beauty and innocence, no legend and infatuation in "Paper Drunk and Gold", the coppery smell is pungent, and all the people are twisted and grimy and indifferent. The story is bound to be much less interesting.
While focusing on the gold speculation in the original story, the scriptwriters have carried out an almost complete overhaul of the original story, not only drastically altering the plot, but also changing the characters to make them unrecognizable.
The screenwriter enriched the original into a story with a beginning and an end, which was originally a woman's depraved history, evolved into a hot Chongqing drama put together by three women.
In addition to this, the character of Grandma Zhu has been enriched, and Fan Baohua's portrayal is much better than the original. In the original, the local accent is written many times, and the dialogues are expressed in dialect many times, which is very characteristic, so the drama also shows these dialects as they are, mixed with the local flavor of Mandarin, which brings out the southern flavor of the drama in a proper way, and it is natural and ironic.