Episode 191 (Zhu Yidan)

Episode 191 is the 191st episode of Zhu Yidan's Boring Life.

Plot
The episode begins with Zhu Yidan introducing his company to the "bad friend". The friend, noticing one of Zhu Yidan's employees is sleeping, takes another employee's coat and puts it on the sleeping employee's back. The employee is grateful and calls the friend "papa" while Zhu Yidan, as the narrator, notes that it is summer. The friend then notices another employee is eating and gives a half drumstick to the employee. Then the friend notices a male employee is slapped by a female employee while the narrator says that the male employee is being punished for "reselling company secrets".

The friend, witnessed these incidents, becomes angry, takes out a microphone and delivers a speech to Zhu Yidan's employees. In the speech, the friend voices his dissatisfaction of perceived ill-treatment of employees in Zhu Yidan's company and encourages employees to join his company, claiming that his company has "absolute freedom, absolute welfare" and makes every employees "absolutely comfortable". Zhu Yidan thinks his speech is in "unreasonable excitement". A employee strikes his keyboard with a wooden stick and totally three employees chooses to join the friend's company. Zhu Yidan sneers and thinks that the resigned employees could "achieve absolute absolute", which is "good fortune".

Three employees, now inside the elevator, are happy while one of them kisses his new work card. The elevator door opens after some time. Three employees, seeing the new company, are surprised. It is shown that the company is in mess. A man falls in a defensive pose and another man in black clothes appears, compresses the fallen man and strikes him. The elevator door closes and the episode ends.

Behind the scenes

 * The episode is believed to be the satire of perceived American propaganda which "painting America and discrediting China".
 * The scene in the friend's company is believed to be the reference to the death of George Floyd on 26th May, 2020 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States and the nationwide George Floyd protests.
 * Chinese media has highlighted the violent side of the protests and reactions of United States government, while accusing United States politicians of "double standard regarding riots".