It is a love story between a top tailor of a high-end wedding dress and a small town waiter. The male protagonist has a strong spiritual dependence on his mother. He is unmarried and is committed to finding a woman who can give him maternal love and care, and the heroine is just a giving type. personality. In order for the hero to completely surrender, she used poisonous mushrooms twice to make him weak. Because only when she falls ill can the hero be attached to her like a child. After the heroine calmly tells the truth, can the hero tenderly ask to kiss her again before he gets poisoned? The picture is warm and romantic, like the most beautiful marriage in the world.
In post-war London in the 1950s, Reynolds Woodcock and his sister Cyril ran a small, well-known ready-to-wear brand. Sophisticated and gorgeous, the handcrafted clothes by Reynolds' team have attracted fashion-conscious London dignitaries and Belgian princesses to order.
Reynolds Woodcock was meticulous, self-aware, and sometimes mean.
He blames the woman next to him for being interrupted with "quiet thinking time in the morning".
Although he looked at his girlfriend who had breakfast with cold eyes, he faced old customers with warm and grateful eyes:
For Reynolds, making a great garment and making the customer happy is everything.
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Reynolds met Alma over a chance meeting during breakfast in a small country-town restaurant.
After ordering, Reynolds invited Alma to dinner, and Alma also left a note:
"To the hungry boys, my name is Alma"
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This clumsy woman has Woodcock's favorite figure, and Alma realizes her beauty dream with Woodcock's skirt. In this way, Alma entered the life of a tailor and became Woodcock's muse and lover.
At the dinner table, Reynolds watched Alma as if he were looking at his own work.
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The differences in the concept of marriage and love between the two were initially revealed in the chat.
After dinner, Reynolds tailored Alma's clothes, and Alma's eyes were full of admiration for his talent. Reynolds was very strict with the stance of the models, and the hyperactive Alma made him complain. The immersive production process made the two forget their contradictions.
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There seemed to be a strong desire in Alma's eyes, hoping to completely own the man in front of him. And they were always separated by a thin layer of paper before. If it is broken, the world created by the two will be fragmented.
He kept her by his side, but he only looked at her with admiration when he let her try on clothes. Besides, he even disliked her: disliked her taste, disliked her being too noisy when eating, and also disliked her. I hate that she always interrupts his work self-righteously.
Reynolds gets angry when Alma disturbs Reynolds at one breakfast for not paying attention to table manners.
Reynolds always put the work of tailoring first, and no one could interfere, not even his fiancée.
Alma was exhausted by his meanness and fussing over every detail.
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The following month, the lady who sponsored them, Barbara, was going to hold a wedding, and the task of the dress was perfectly completed by Reynolds. But at the wedding, Barbara, whose personal life was chaotic, made a mess of the gown.
Out of respect for Reynolds' work, Alma asked Barbara's servant to forcibly take off her gown. After being refused, Alma went directly into the room and grabbed her clothes back. This brave move moved Reynolds and the two kissed.
At breakfast the next day, Reynolds' eyes changed, like a docile, temporarily appeased lion.
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Alma was not satisfied and wanted to further "occupy" Reynolds' heart, so she asked all her colleagues in the studio to leave on a certain night to surprise Reynolds.
Reynolds' rock-cold heart was not fluctuated by surprise, but rather annoyed.
The taste of asparagus for dinner even made the two swear at each other, which intensified the conflict, and Reynolds' eyes became stubborn and refused to give in. He said the most harsh words to Alma.
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Alma found a book on mushroom science for breakfast one day, and remembered the poisonous mushrooms the cook had told her to watch out for when she was picking food a few weeks ago. She found poisonous mushrooms, ground them into powder, and poured them into the jug of morning tea.
Reynolds drank his morning tea, the toxin was slowly spreading, and when he finally checked the ready-made clothes, Reynolds fainted.
Under the influence of the poison, Reynolds became docile and weak, his eyes became fearful, and the mask of pretending to be strong was lifted by the expressionless Alma. He was helpless and afraid, but he rejected the outside world.
In a sea of darkness and pain, Alma was the only beacon, caring for him when he was at his weakest. Nine
After recovering, Reynolds proposed to Alma.
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After the marriage, Reynolds began to try to compromise, and saw Alma's indecent behavior at the dinner table.
One day Alma told Reynolds to go dancing alone, and Reynolds continued to work after expressing her opinion, as if telling Alma "I don't care". He actually peeked at Alma's back twice as he walked down the stairs.
The possessiveness in Reynolds's heart reached its peak again.
That night, Reynolds changed his habits for Alma for the first time, looking for her at the ball and pulling her home.
They both measure each other in the way of their own love, and they refuse to give in to each other. The possessiveness makes the two constantly quarrel and the conflict escalates.
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One day, while the customer was trying on clothes, Reynolds ran into the room to tell his sister that he couldn't stand it, he couldn't stand a little bit of domination by others, and Alma had affected everything in her life. With a work of art at the center of his life, he became distracted and couldn't make clothes for the sole purpose.
Almost obsessive-compulsive-like stubborn, he said hurtful words, and even greater contradictions were about to be aroused.
But Alma didn't change her face at this time, and seemed to know what Reynolds wanted.
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At dinner time, Alma was making the mushroom quiche, and they looked at each other, just as when they first met, silent and full of emotion.
Reynolds picked up the largest chunk of mushrooms and swallowed it slowly.
In fact, Reynolds knew about Alma's poison," and Reynolds liked it.
Reynolds began to enjoy how he was unguarded in front of this woman, and could continue to be cold in front of everyone, but only in the face of Alma, he willingly reduced himself to a tender and fragile child.
He finally allowed this woman to enter his life, disrupt his order, and enter his heart.
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