Shen Zhiyi and Gu Yuchuan were forced to get married due to a crisis in their family's financial chain and signed a one-year contract marriage. The two agreed to live in separate rooms, not to interfere with each other, and to go their separate ways when the time comes.
She is a docile curatorial assistant, but deep down she carries the old wound of her mother leaving when she was seven years old - "It is better to rely on yourself than to rely on anyone else" has become her survival rule. He is a cold-blooded VP of an investment bank who uses contracts to quantify all emotions. Because he caught his father cheating on him when he was ten years old, he learned to lock his heartbeat in a safe.
Three hundred and sixty-five days, she drew a countdown on the refrigerator. Each stroke was very heavy, as if it was being carved into the wooden board, and as if she was afraid of waking up something. On a rainy night, he tilted his black umbrella towards her. His right shoulder was soaked, but he said, "Grandpa, check the post." She put the umbrella deep in the closet and put it with her mother's old scarf. The next day, the straight characters suddenly became lighter.
They are all waiting for the other person to speak first, for the other person to be moved first, for the three hundred and sixty-five days to pass - or for it to never pass.
Until the night before the contract expired, the shredder roared, she tore up the positive words, and he destroyed the divorce agreement. It turns out that "staying" requires more courage than "leaving".
This is a story about two people who are afraid of being abandoned and learn to be left behind in a contract marriage.
Intention: It takes more courage to stay than to leave