A true marriage-before-love story, with no secret crush before the wedding. A married couple gets carried away: free-spirited and uninhibited X highly principled
Xu Shuling and Xie Yicun have been married for two years. Their life together has been one big "X": apart from being at home and attending necessary social engagements, they have almost no contact.
Xu Shuling was quite happy with this arrangement. It was calm and comfortable.
The only problem was that both sets of parents kept urging them to have a baby, with increasing insistence. Desperate to escape the pressure, she started thinking of ways to avoid them.
She came up with the idea of staging a separation.
Xie Yicun was practical and capable, a traditional man with an exceptionally strong sense of morality.
Xu Shuling knew he would never play along, so while he was away on a business trip, she made a big show of moving out of their marital home and staged a separation all by herself.
That night, Xu Shuling celebrated over drinks with a friend. When she woke up the next day, she was surprised to find the man who was supposed to be out of town on business.
In the morning light, he sat on the sofa with his legs crossed, unhurriedly reading the documents in his hands. He didn't look up until he had reached the last page and closed the folder.
He said, "We can live separately, but there's one condition: we have to see each other once a week. Any missed visits will add up."
They had always spent more time apart than together. The biggest impact of living separately would be on their sex life.
When he said they had to see each other, did he mean he wanted to maintain the little intimacy they'd had before?
But now that she had declared they were separating, they'd have to meet in secret.
Xu Shuling was naturally uninhibited and couldn't resist this kind of thrilling, live-in-the-moment fun.
She agreed, eagerly anticipating their secret rendezvous, er, dates.
They went to the mall, fancy restaurants, the movies... Then he took her home, each of them to their own place.
After all that, Xu Shuling began to suspect that when he said "see each other," he meant actually, purely, just seeing each other.
Just as she was starting to give up on their dates, the location finally changed to a hotel!
The night at the hotel was wild.
The next morning, things were heating up again when the doorbell suddenly rang, followed by a woman's voice: "Open up, it's your mother!"
Xu Shuling jumped and whispered to the man above her, "Whose mother?"
Xie Yicun paused, then said in a low voice, "Mine."
#Should they hide? Where?
#About their meetups:
The male lead: Spending time with his wife
The female lead: He wants to do it
Theme: She doesn't want to live as a noun defined by anyone in any relationship
