What is son-in-law (urban) novels?

In recent years, son-in-law (urban) stories are becoming a popular genre in website novel categories. However, we found that not many authors know what son-in-law (urban) story is and how to write a good son-in-law (urban) story. In this article, we will explain it in detail.

What’s the main idea of a son-in-law (urban) story?

The son-in-law (urban) story is always with tight plot, strong emotional stimulation and plot reversal. For example, the main character is a son-in-law (urban) in a small family, he is bullied all the time but suddenly meets a turning point, the person the family wanted to rely on bowed to the MC instead. Actually, the real identity of the MC is the young master of a super rich family.

The main character of son-in-law (urban) story always seems to be a useless man in the eyes of his wife, a totally loser in the eyes of his mother-in-law. But after he inherited his family wealth, he would sweep away the previous contempt and ridicule.

The MC with a low status is always despised by all kinds of people like his colleagues, relatives of his wife, rich brats pursue his wife, even securities and salesman/saleswoman in luxury shops. However, finally they will all bow to the MC begging his forgiveness.

The MC has no rights to participate a family decision, no successful career and economic ability, he even lost the right to pursue fortune and fame, which damages totally the dignity of men. To describe it jokingly, there are 3 key elements in son-in-law (urban) story: Being slapped, to wash feet for his wife and marriage without sex.

In a word, the main idea of son-in-law (urban) story is about how a man find his male dignity back.

How to write a good son-in-law (urban) story?

To figure out this question, we should know why readers love son-in-law (urban) story.

The MC of son-in-law (urban) story is always bullied and looked down upon, but he will soon get a super strong cheats, with a little effort he can quickly achieve far more achievements than ordinary people.

At the early stage of the story, MC should be like an ordinary person, the family and social dilemmas he faces exist also in the realistic world, which is conducive to the readers empathy for the MC. The plot of oppression and bullying can also arouse readers' sympathy, with the dual psychological mechanisms of empathy and sympathy, the readers’ sense of substitution for MC will be constructed.

Therefore, in a son-in-law (urban) story, readers prefer a high frequency plot reversal, compact reversal is always a trigger to readers’ feeling. Little reversals in a single chapter will be conducive to keep readers stay for the big final reversal: when the MC announce his identity. The high frequency narrative of “being bullied-fight back-being bullied-fight back” will be repeated in son-in-law (urban) stories.

Who is the target audience?

Not elite, of course. The son-in-law (urban) story is for those ordinary people, the truth is almost everyone can find the conflicts in son-in-law (urban) stories exist also realistic world.

People may be despised by their wives or relatives about their failure, even if it’s only temporary thing, they may also meet someone who use his privilege to bully others, or someone being abused by others only because he’s weak/poor/single-parent, and even someone cut you in the line and he got no punishments...

The MC of the son-in-law (urban), different from the other genre’s MCs, has to knuckle under the sarcasm from others. From some aspect every ordinary man can find some similarity between himself and the MC. This is why the target audience of son-in-law (urban) story is for ordinary people.

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