
Contract Life, True Love Turns a Corner
by Qiao Jian
About This Novel
When an algorithm engineer who is as rigorous as code meets a gentle but tough unemployed preschool education worker, the two souls marginalized by the "algorithm" of life sign an unprecedented "emotional labor contract." This is not the beginning of a love story, but a social experiment in intimacy. Qiao Youzhi, a programmer who earns a considerable salary but does not understand people's hearts, uses logic to avoid interpersonal risks; Hao Jiayi, a preschool teacher who is considerate but often hits the wall, uses gentleness to fight against the coldness of the world. When the rent crisis encountered the difficulty of finding a job, the two reached an extremely rational agreement: to act as a couple to the outside world, but to clearly divide the labor internally. From housework assignment matrices to scripts for meeting relatives and friends, from emotional support billing standards to relationship termination clauses, they try to use contracts to regulate feelings and use algorithms to deconstruct people's hearts. But when the real flow of emotions begins to hit the dam of the contract, when family expectations, social gaze and inner desires are intertwined, can this precision-designed relationship algorithm still output the "expected results"?
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