Various reversal routines in famous works

(1) Mutual deception by both parties: Both parties lied out of good intentions or malice, concealing their true situation, but were eventually exposed at the same time, exposing the embarrassing situation:

A "Love's "Sacrifice": A poor couple who studied art were worried about the high tuition fees. The wife who studied music said that she could make money as a tutor, and the husband who studied painting said that he could make money by selling paintings, but in the end the husband found out that his wife was working as a laundry worker. , the wife discovered that her husband was going to burn the boiler.

B "Thanksgiving Gentlemen": There is a rich man who treats a poor man to a big dinner every Thanksgiving. This is a tacit understanding and tradition between them. In order to maintain this tradition, one year's Thanksgiving, the poor still went to the rich's banquet even though they had eaten their fill first, which eventually caused them to faint from bloating; even though the rich were bankrupt, they still had to save money to treat the poor to a feast, and finally Causing myself to faint from hunger.

C "While Waiting for the Bus": A poor boy approached a rich girl in the park to show her goodwill. The rich girl boasted to him about her high-society life, and the poor boy said that he was in a small restaurant next to the park. work to earn a living. It turned out that the rich girl was the worker in the small restaurant, and it was the poor boy who really lived in the upper class.

(2) Unilateral well-intentioned deception: One party is deceived by the lie of the other party, but the lie is often made out of good intentions, although good intentions may also lead to bad things.

A "The Last Leaf": A seriously ill girl believed that the time when the last leaf fell on the branch outside the ward was the end of her life, but after a violent storm, the leaf still did not fall, which ignited the girl The hope of living well. However, this leaf was actually temporarily painted by another artist patient. Unfortunately, he was caught in a heavy rain and died of pneumonia.

B "Witch's Bread": The female bakery owner sympathized with the strange man who came to buy cheap expired bread every day, and even fell in love with him and secretly spread butter on the bread. Unexpectedly, the other party was actually an excellent designer. He bought expired bread to use as an eraser, but the butter in the bread completely destroyed the drawings he was going to use to participate in an important competition, and also ruined the possibility between the two. sex.

C "Twenty Years Later": The police met a man while patrolling at night. The man said that he and his best friend made an appointment to meet here tonight twenty years ago. After the police left, another man appeared, claiming to be the man's friend, but took the man to the police station for arrest. It turned out that the first police officer was the one the man wanted to wait for. He kept his promise and went to the appointment. However, he also recognized that the man was a wanted criminal. Because he could not bear to arrest the man himself, he had to ask his colleagues from the police station to pretend to be him and arrest him. Former friend.

(3) Double scam: People who think they have mastered the scam are deceived instead, and the winner always thinks one more step.

A "Hypnosis Master Jeff Peters": A swindler selling counterfeit medicine was invited to treat the mayor who had abdominal pain. The swindler took the opportunity to defraud the mayor of a large sum of medical expenses. But the moment he got the money, the police showed up and said that this was a trap set up by him and the mayor to catch this liar. The policeman told the mayor that he would take the scammer and the money as evidence back to the city, and would return the money after the investigation of the case was completed. The mayor believed it was true, but he didn't know that the policeman was also a fake policeman, and he was in league with the liar.

B "The Princess and the Cougar": The male hunter was overtaken by the female hunter when ambushing a lion. The male hunter felt very embarrassed, so he lied to the female hunter that the lion was his docile little pet. It never hurts anyone, and its death makes me sad. The huntress was moved by this, apologized and comforted her repeatedly, and expressed her admiration for the male hunter's love. The male hunter left triumphantly, and the female hunter reported to her family: the lion that was doing evil everywhere and killing neighbors was finally killed after she tracked it for many days.

C "Actuarial Science of Marriage": Good friends A and B hired a widow, packaged her as a rich woman and posted fake marriage advertisements to defraud the marriage seekers out of the fees paid. Later, the widow said that she had met her true love during the marriage proposal and wanted to get married. She asked A to give her all the money mentioned in the fake marriage notice, but A had no choice but to agree.

But soon B returned the money to A. It turned out that he was the "true love" in the widow's mouth. The widow thought that she and B teamed up to deceive A, but in fact it was B who deceived her to protect A.

(4) The deception of the third party: Due to the lies of the third party in the story, information between the protagonists is not smooth, resulting in major regrets.

"Furnished Room for Rent": A young man rented a house and felt the scent of his missing lover in the room. He asked the landlord about the previous tenants here, but the landlord denied that such a girl had ever rented the house. Live here. In fact, the girl lived here, but she committed suicide here. The landlord was afraid of affecting the rental situation of the house, so he lied to the young man. As a result, the young man did not know the whereabouts of his lover in the end, and committed suicide in despair in the room.

A "The Gift of the Magi": At Christmas, the husband sold his ancestral pocket watch in order to buy a gemstone comb for his wife who had beautiful hair, and the wife bought platinum for her husband who had an ancestral pocket watch. The watch chain sold one of his hair. Both parties sold their precious things in order to give each other gifts, rendering the other party's gifts useless.

B "The Police and the Hymn": The homeless man decided to commit some minor crimes in order to enter the prison to eat and drink for free. But no matter how hard he tried, no policeman was willing to arrest him. When he was depressed, he heard the hymn and was moved by the holy power. When he decided to change his mind and cheer up, he was arrested by the police and sent to prison.

C "Red Chief's Ransom": Two kidnappers kidnapped a little boy and demanded a ransom from the child's father, but not only did the ransom not come, but because the little boy was too naughty, they took the two kidnappers away. The kidnapper was so tormented that he almost collapsed. In the end, the two kidnappers had to pay a large sum of money to the child's father before he agreed to take the child back.

D "Tonya's Red Rose": Two cowboys fell in love with the same girl and started competing to see who could buy the most fashionable hat for the girl first. The two arrived at the store at the same time and bought the same hat. When they returned, Cowboy A was in the lead, but was shot down by Cowboy B from behind. The hat was flattened, and the white roses used for decoration were stained red by the blood from A's injury. But the hat style that B brought back first was already out of date, but the flat hat decorated with red roses that A brought back was the latest style that the girl wanted.

E "The Pendulum": Every time a man doesn't want to go home to be with his wife after get off work, he looks for various excuses to go out and have fun alone. One day when he came home, he found that his wife had gone back to her parents' home because of something else. He suddenly felt empty, lonely and cold, and he missed the warmth of his wife's home. While he was staying at home, feeling sad and missing his wife, her wife came back, and the man immediately felt that it would be more fun to go out and have fun alone.

A "The Road of Destiny": A shepherd who wants to be a poet faces three forks in his destiny. The three forks lead to different lives, but they are all related to the same palace rebellion. No matter how the shepherd chooses, he is destined not to become a poet, but to die by the same gun in different scenes.

B "The Third Ingredient": The optimistic aunt wants to make a pot of beef stew, but she only has beef, no potatoes and onions. A young man and woman are missing each other, but they can't find each other. Fortunately, the girl has potatoes and the young man has onions. In order to make a delicious pot of beef stew, the optimistic aunt will not hesitate to find these two people, get them together, and match them up.

C "The Road We Choose": Two robbers who had a close friendship collaborated to steal a large sum of money. Robber A's horse was injured when escaping, so he proposed to ride with Robber B*** B refused, killed A and ran off alone with the money. Then B woke up from his dream and found that he was a financier in reality, and was losing all his money to his old friend who had worked with him for many years for his own benefit. Whether in reality or in a dream, his nature of betraying his friends for personal gain will never change.

A "The God of Wealth and Love": The son of a rich man loves a girl, but the girl is about to travel far away and may not have the chance to get close to her again.

The son's last chance was on the way to send the girl to the station, so the rich man hired many vehicles to block the roads in the city, using an unprecedented traffic jam to buy his son enough time to impress the girl and propose. success.

B "The Romance of a Busy Broker": A busy securities broker was crazy about his work while he fell in love with his female secretary. Finally, he couldn't help but propose to the secretary during his break from work. But the secretary told him, dear, you are so focused on your work that you have forgotten that I got married to you yesterday.

C "The Cut-off": Protagonist A was asked what happened to the injury on his ear. He said it was a symbol of friendship. Back then, he and his gay friend B fell in love with a woman at the same time. For the sake of fairness and friendship, they agreed that no one could pursue her alone. Only when both of them appeared in front of her at the same time could he show kindness to her and please her. Later, the woman fell in love with A. On the night of their wedding, the bride asked A why he didn't come into the room. A said casually that he was waiting for B to come. This habit would not break for a while, and he was beaten by the bride.

A "Muppets": The protagonist, who is a doctor and a thief, treats a rich man who has a heart attack. His original intention is to steal the money in the safe of the rich man's home, but he discovers The rich man was not only an alcoholic and a gambler but also domestic violence against his innocent wife. He also lost all his money in gambling. In the end, the rich man died. The protagonist put his own money in the safe and told his poor wife that this was the living expenses left by the rich man for her.

B "A New Life": While being chased by the police, the gangster decided to change his mind and start a new life because he met the girl he loved. However, when he was about to start a better life, he died in order to save a child. His identity was exposed in front of the police who came to pursue him. The gangster thought he was completely finished, but the police who witnessed everything pretended not to recognize him and let him live.

A "Heart and Hands": The police escorting the prisoner met his old lover on the train, and the two had a friendly talk about the past. After they separated, the truth was revealed. It turned out that the police were the real prisoners being escorted, and the real police proposed to exchange the identities of the two in order to save the prisoner's face in front of his old lover.

B "The Shining Light": Girls A and B are good friends. A is ordinary in appearance, hardworking and simple, careful with budget, and has rich savings. B is beautiful in appearance, loves vanity, spends money disorderly, and is often poor. Loud. A often advises B to live a down-to-earth life, but B only wants to catch a rich husband. Just when A and her ordinary boyfriend C were about to get married, and B also won the favor of a rich man, A dumped her boyfriend C for wealth and ran away with a rich man, while B rejected the rich man's proposal and finally married C. Live a solid life.

A "Tobin's Palmistry": The young man is worried about finding his missing lover. The fortune teller tells the young man that an uncle with certain characteristics will bring him good luck. Soon the young man really meets a man who matches his needs. The uncle has all the characteristics, and the two become good friends after a lot of hard work. The uncle invites the young man to drink coffee at his house. As for the maid who makes the coffee, it happens to be the lover that the young man has been looking for.

B "Green Door": The young man accidentally got a leaflet with "Green Door" written on it, and he happened to encounter a green door. The young man believed that this was an instruction from God and pushed it. He entered through the door, rescued the girl who was fainting from hunger, and became her lover. But in fact, the flyer was an advertisement for a play called "Green Door". It was handed to the young man by the guy who distributed the advertisement for the dental clinic, and then the marriage was brought together by a wonderful coincidence.

Among the many other stories summarized above, include "The Gift of the Magi", "The Witch's Bread", "Twenty Years Later", "The Police and the Hymn", "Tonya's Red Rose", "The Third Ingredient" and so on, all have varying degrees of coincidence settings. Unexpected coincidences are a common method of reversing the plot.

Due to space limitations, short stories do not narrate lengthy stories. Instead, they tend to focus on one or two key turning points, making them the highlight of the whole story.