Thirty Days After the Divorce

Li Qian and Liao Fan marry without a bride price or dowry, rejecting worldly conventions and vowing to stay romantically in love until death. They will buy a house together, make car payments together, leave their original families to start a new home, give their children different surnames and raise them together, and care for both sets of parents together. Their seemingly "perfectly fair" new model of marriage is shattered when her father-in-law receives a diagnosis of terminal cancer. The hands that once held a paintbrush must now deal with daily chores and household expenses, and the vow to be "romantically in love until death" must collide head-on with harsh reality. The once-loving young couple eventually return to the civil affairs office, only to find themselves caught in a cooling-off period for divorce...