A forbidden love that transcends ethics and secularity, a gamble of exchanging one's body for eternity.
22-Year-old Lin Xi met 35-year-old gallery owner Shen Youwen, an elegant but broken single mother, at Yuye Gallery. The relationship that was supposed to stop at being a part-time teacher completely spiraled out of control after Lin Xi moved into that home and became the "sister" that the two children relied on. After seven years of companionship, they used tenderness to build a glass-like family dream.
Until Shen Youwen's adolescent son broke up with the family, in the abyss of despair, she proposed a shocking deal: "We want a child, a child that truly belongs to 'us'." After a year-long struggle, 28-year-old Lin Xi signed this contract of blood and tears with her body.
From the medical torture of in vitro fertilization, to the abyss of postpartum depression, to facing legal gaps and social scrutiny, the two women trudged between lies and truth. This boy "Nianxi" created by medicine is not only the crystallization of love, but also the shackles of ethics. When the legal "father" intervenes, the child's life experience is exposed, and secular prejudices flood in, they must answer: Is this "forever" exchanged for their bodies a redemption, or a deeper prison?
This is a story about how love is entangled with selfishness, and how families are rebuilt through the cracks. It's not perfect, but it's bone-chillingly real - when love crosses the boundaries of gender, blood and ethics, are we creating new possibilities, or are we repeating ancient possessions?
Purpose: This is a serious literary work about how love takes root in the cracks of ethics, law and society. It is not satisfied with the romanticized imagination of depicting sympathy, but faces the most cruel real dilemma: when a family cannot be legally recognized, when maternal love needs to be proved by a medical contract, and when children become bargaining chips for emotional binding, can love still remain pure? The story uses a shocking "in vitro fertilization" transaction to uncover the undercurrents under the glamorous surface of "non-traditional families"