In Xiasha, Hangzhou, two couples born in the 1988s and 1990s live diagonally across from each other on the same street. In one pair, the man is an Internet software developer, and the woman Shi Ruhua is a headhunter and overseas market surveyer; in the other couple, the man Haitian is a new energy calibration engineer for automobiles, and the woman Jiang Chunshui is in photovoltaic overseas logistics. During an overseas business trip, Shi Ruhua and Hai Tianyi lost contact in the Middle East. Behind them was the sudden historical incident of Iranian bombing. The two people who stayed in China, Jin Bangming and Jiang Chunshui, seemed to meet each other by chance in the community study room and the "Shiwei" restaurant. However, as they waited together, they discovered that their partners went out together on the beach in Dubai on the day they lost contact, and were suspected of having cheated... From suspicion to temptation, from flashbacks to reconstruction, through the details of renting and subletting, encounters on outdoor walks, supermarkets The outbreak of queue jumping and the respite from work involution show the delicate process of personal growth and maturity of ordinary people of our generation, as well as the acquaintance, suspicion, and reconfirmation after marriage. At the same time, through the states and experiences of strangers in the eyes that everyone will encounter later, the timeline is interspersed and supplemented, and the intertextuality of different worlds further reflects some similar situations of personal growth, maturity, and experience.
The play also reflects the spiritual outlook of men and women in the new era. For example, men hate smoking; women occasionally wear makeup, but they all hate strong perfume...
Concept: The word "interest" in the title of the play - superficially refers to interests and hobbies, but also implies the intimacy and initiative in marriage. After many years of marriage, the "interests" I loved when I was single (hiking, exploring, and curiosity) have gradually become diluted in daily life. The greater irony is that people wait until they are about to lose something before they remember to pick it up.
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Until the T-shirt is dry Ｔシャツがくまで (2026)
On the 9th, the first Sunday in August, I was traveling between Suzhou and Shanghai for work. Before my wife and I were about to catch the train to Shanghai again in the evening, I accidentally turned on the long-lost TV and searched for recent Japanese dramas to pass the time.
In the first Japanese drama compilation recommendation I found on Wukong Browser, there were no paragraphs, no chapter or book title, and it was as unknown as reading a book from heaven. When I casually clicked on this drama, and then I was suddenly shocked when I saw the first episode, I let it continue to play, but my attention was long gone. I was alone, thinking about it, brewing in a daze, until the train reminded me, my wife reminded me.
Then, combined with my own experience, inspiration came to me, and I quickly wrote the Chinese version of "Until the T-shirt Dry" - "The Interest That I Can't Pick Up After Many Years of Marriage". [Orange Candy] Got it
Until the T-shirt is dry Ｔシャツがくまで (2026) On the 9th, the first Sunday in August, I was traveling between Suzhou and Shanghai for work. Before my wife and I were about to catch the train to Shanghai again in the evening, I accidentally turned on the long-lost TV and searched for recent Japanese dramas to pass the time. In the first Japanese drama compilation recommendation I found on Wukong Browser, there were no paragraphs, no chapter or book title, and it was as unknown as reading a book from heaven. When I casually clicked on this drama, and then I was suddenly shocked when I saw the first episode, I let it continue to play, but my attention was long gone. I was alone, thinking about it, brewing in a daze, until the train reminded me, my wife reminded me. Then, combined with my own experience, inspiration came to me, and I quickly wrote the Chinese version of "Until the T-shirt Dry" - "The Interest That I Can't Pick Up After Many Years of Marriage". [Orange Candy] Got it