After ten years of marriage, Li Lan walked away without looking back, moving out of the home they had filled with the warmth of everyday life.
Chen Jian, the proud, coldhearted CEO, could no longer bear the longing and regret. So he did something utterly absurd: he hired his ex-wife as his live-in housekeeper for an annual salary of 200,000 yuan.
Once, they shared a bed. Now, they stood on opposite sides of an employer-employee relationship.
Faced with her ex-husband’s intense, complicated gaze, she drew a line with icy words: “Mr. Chen, please remember the boundaries between employer and employee.”
Everyone said Chen Jian had brought this on himself. Divorce was supposed to mean they were even.
Only he knew that this ridiculous arrangement was the only way he could hold on to the past and awkwardly beg her to stay.
A spark of attraction during a rainy-night trip to the ER, a child’s tearful plea for reconciliation, arguments over everyday trivialities, the strange looks from their colleagues… Their cold employment arrangement became a shackle binding them both.
After enduring one humiliation after another, Li Lan decided to quit and leave.
Seeing his daughter kneeling to beg her to stay, and his ex-wife’s flustered, reddened eyes, all their love and resentment surged to the surface.
In that moment, Chen Jian’s pride shattered completely, and he finally broke down.
He threw away the employment contract and offered her a new marriage certificate, every word sincere: “I won’t keep you here as your employer. As your husband, I’m begging you to come home.”
After all the twists and turns, we are still each other’s home.
