Xu Tingting did not ask for any betrothal gifts when she got married, and only asked her eldest son to take her surname of Xu.
The mother-in-law promised to save the bride price, but her face changed after the eldest grandson's surname was Xu: "My family is extinct?"
The second child's daughter took her father's surname of Zhang, and her mother-in-law felt that her granddaughter was not as valuable as her grandson: "Let's give birth to a new one!"
When I refused to have a third child, my husband put his arm around the waist of my female colleague in the wine shop and said, "She won't even give me a son."
At this moment, I held the test sheet and sneered——
The DNA of the "Zhang grandson" in his lover's belly does not have the surname Zhang at all.
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Xu Tingting gave up the bride price in exchange for the right to bear the eldest son's surname. The marriage agreement seemed like a win-win situation, but it buried the rift of intergenerational conflict. When the verbal promise of "having three children" collides with the reproductive autonomy of working women, a tug-of-war over surnames, bodies and dignity quietly breaks out. The mother-in-law's pressing step by step, the husband's wavering and cowardice, and the lover's unexpected pregnancy push this war that started with surnames into an unpredictable abyss...
