A matchmaking battleground for divorced men and women, where messy reality delivers a wake-up call!
IVF and a whirlwind marriage? Lan Ling, a saintly designer racing against her fertility deadline, marries Jiang Shan, a single father, and has a child with him through IVF. Just as their life begins to settle down, she discovers a shocking secret.
A breakup settlement? Hua Sangyu, a teacher on her third marriage, gets involved with Zhang Jianjun, a womanizer in his latest “single” phase. He treats her like a free housekeeper and bedmate! Disguised as a college student, she reels him in and turns the tables. At the breakup, she even brings out a calculator and bills him 18,000 by the hour! She tears into the scumbag with words that cut to the bone!
Marry into a family worth billions with a child in tow? Wang Keke, a glamorous model and divorced single mother, fights her way through the high-end marriage market. Refusing to be a rich family's trophy wife, she uses her charm and savvy to win over a billionaire CEO, launching an against-all-odds rise as a woman who marries into wealth with a child and becomes a business partner, too!
Have a baby with donor sperm and leave the father out of it? After being betrayed, Ye Bing, a cool and collected CEO, shuts herself off from love completely. She skips men altogether, spends a fortune choosing sperm from a donor bank, and uses technology to become a cool single mom. She builds her career and raises her child at the same time, creating her own definition of a perfect life!
How will these women carve out a path through scheming, betrayal, and absurd reality, and achieve redemption and rebirth?
A cross-section of ordinary people in the matchmaking scene:
A professor looking for a free housekeeper, a sexless marriage kept afloat, an ugly wife treated as a vessel for a baby conceived with a donor egg...
This portrait of the messy world of divorced men and women explores, amid absurd ups and downs and the bustle of everyday life, the price and glimmers of hope involved in rebuilding happiness from broken lives.
Keywords: divorced women, matchmaking, remarriage, whirlwind marriage, IVF, single mothers, vegetative patients, adopted children who aren't biologically related, marriage, redemption, women's growth, realistic fiction, ensemble cast of women, comeback, taking down scumbags
