Su Wan, a senior designer at Starpath Design Studio, stayed up late revising her proposal three times for the year’s most important project, “Cloudscape Tourism,” determined to satisfy the demanding client. But when she opened the conference room door for the project meeting, she froze. The client representative sitting at the head of the table, dressed in a suit with a stern gaze and saying, “The proposal needs further refinement,” was none other than her husband, Lu Chengyu. They had been married for six months and slept in separate rooms because he was “too busy with work.”
A deliberate concealment of their identities brought the professional rivalry at work crashing into the stalemate in their marriage. By day, she was a designer racking her brains to deal with the client’s “demands.” By night, she was a wife facing a husband who shared her bed but not her dreams. As working through the project broke the silence between them, the truth hidden behind their “busy schedules” gradually surfaced. They finally realized that what needed the most “refining” had never been the design proposal, but their marriage, which work had swept up in its tide. Amid sharp exchanges in the conference room and heart-to-heart talks in the study late at night, two adults began learning all over again how to be lovers, beyond their roles as client and contractor.
