"Gu Zhengqing and Lin Shutong" tells an affectionate story that started as a contract marriage but gradually heated up as they walked side by side.
How can the rational marriage of diplomats and military officers break their principles and move toward each other?
Eight years ago, a chance encounter at Bincheng Airport led to a brief encounter between the lovelorn Lin Shutong and the soldier Gu Zhengqing. Many years later, an evenly matched marriage bound the two of them - she was sober and independent, an elite translator at the Consular Protection Center of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs; he was calm and self-possessed, a lieutenant colonel with iron-blooded self-discipline in the military. They signed a prenuptial agreement and agreed on a "cooperative relationship without interfering with each other", but things changed quietly during the running-in of living together in a courtyard: an unexpected kiss during a trip to Erhai Lake, nervous concern after a slip in the bathroom, a tacit "meeting at the top" at an international conference...
When Gu Zhengqing knelt down on one knee and broke his principles to propose to her under the starry sky; when Lin Shutong accurately interpreted his speech during a cross-border military exercise; when the twins "Qing Fan" and "Nian Tong" were born, reflecting the bond between the two across home, country and time - this marriage that began with reason ended up tempering the most passionate affection in the morning sun on the snowy mountains and text messages on the battlefield.
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▷Marriage first, love later｜Strong professional beliefs｜Feelings of family and country and delicate daily life
▷Diplomat translator × military officer are evenly matched, and their career lines are growing side by side
▷From alienated roommates to close lovers, rational people become romantics
Purpose: This article takes the contractual marriage of diplomats and military officers as the entry point, focusing on the transformation of the two protagonists from rational cooperation of "non-interference" to mutual fetters and deep love in the journey of adhering to their professional beliefs and protecting the tranquility of their home and country. It not only delicately depicts the collision of rationality and sensibility, and the warmth of daily interactions in evenly matched love, but also profoundly explains the two-way pursuit of personal affection and the righteousness of family and country - they use their careers as their armor and love as their weakness, stick to their faith under the sun in the snowy mountains, and watch each other in the smoke of the battlefield. In the end, the contract marriage is sublimated into "the country is the home, and you are the heart." The fiery bond demonstrates the responsibility and responsibility of integrating the feelings of family and country with personal happiness.