A Second Marriage, Seven-Year Itch: Passed with Flying Colors

Lin Wei and Cheng Lei's marriage began with a detailed prenuptial agreement and a clear-eyed conversation about “being partners in life.” Both had been through heartbreak: one gave everything only to be betrayed, while the other committed wholeheartedly only to be manipulated. Seven years ago, they chose to join forces, not out of the heady passion of youth, but as two clear-minded souls forming a strategic alliance: sharing resources, shouldering risks, investing together in their emotional account. Seven years later, when the itch arrives right on schedule, his ex-wife repeatedly crosses boundaries under the pretext of their child, while her business expansion meets with his strategic doubts. The agreement once seen as the foundation of their reason seems unable to hold back the storm. But in this seventh year, they aren't facing the threat of breaking up. They're facing the first major stress test of their partnership. Perhaps the highest form of love is discovering, in the middle of this storm, that the only person they can fight back-to-back with is still the partner who has been by their side for seven years.