After My Divorce, My Bestie and I Went on a Rampage

Li Chi’an never imagined that at thirty, she would calmly film her husband cheating, only for him to turn the tables on her, saddle her with a shared mortgage, and take away custody of their six-year-old son. Once a junior editor and now a freelance writer, she thought she had married for love, but became the most humiliated loser in her marriage. Gao Yinxi scoffed at her naivety. “Men are after either your money or your young womb.” A wealthy family’s adopted daughter and a startup CEO, she lives a polished, self-serving life, but at thirty-three she suddenly wants to be a mother. IVF, pregnancy tests, a prenuptial agreement: she gets pregnant and marries her boyfriend, who is also divorced, never realizing that his eight-year-old son from his previous marriage is watching her belly with a brooding gaze. Xu Zhuwen vents in her best-friends group chat: “My boyfriend is 49 and still building his business. He won’t marry me, saying that if we’re childfree, why bother with the formalities??” After ten years at work, she is sick of playing it safe, yet doesn’t even dare to quit. When her parents turn their marriage-pressure tactics on her, she finally realizes that for middle-aged people, even breaking up means calculating the cost to their retirement savings. Marriage is a high-stakes gamble, and they’ve all been dealt terrible hands. When Li Chi’an runs into Gao Yinxi’s husband at divorce mediation, accompanying his ex-wife and child, and Xu Zhuwen discovers that her boyfriend’s “independent brand” is funded entirely by a female confidante… The three women smash their glasses down at the table. “Screw men. Let’s make money together!”