Why We Tell Stories Part 6: The Contract Marriage -- Love Comes Later
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Last weekend I caught a douyin drama that could be categorized as a workplace affair among other things. The male lead (Wang Chenpeng) is a commercial pilot, offspring of a conglomerate and the female lead (Zhao Xixi), is an aviation doctor who has been crushing on the male lead since they were kids. One night after a welcome party, the two hook up and begin a colleagues with benefits relationship at a local hotel. After two years of being bedmates and nothing else, the disillusioned female lead suggest that they go their separate ways. They do for a brief moment only for her to experience terrible morning sickness soon afterwards. Soon they find themselves in a contract relationship situation. For the sake of giving the unborn child status, they decide to marry but keep it a secret from their peers. In such a situation, the leads come with a lot of baggage. She has seemingly unrequited feelings for him but believes him to be still pining for his former girlfriend who comes rampaging back into his life just at the most inopportune moment. Captain Gao is more of an enigma. His feelings towards Shen Yaochu are harder to read. On the surface he appears to be going through the motions out of obligation. Or does Gao Yuchuan himself not know his own heart? This marks the start of a prolonged angsty push and pull of wrong assumptions and miscommunication — deliberate or accidental.
Why We Tell Stories Part 6: The Contract Marriage -- Love Comes Later
Why We Tell Stories Part 6: The Contract…
Why We Tell Stories Part 6: The Contract Marriage -- Love Comes Later
Last weekend I caught a douyin drama that could be categorized as a workplace affair among other things. The male lead (Wang Chenpeng) is a commercial pilot, offspring of a conglomerate and the female lead (Zhao Xixi), is an aviation doctor who has been crushing on the male lead since they were kids. One night after a welcome party, the two hook up and begin a colleagues with benefits relationship at a local hotel. After two years of being bedmates and nothing else, the disillusioned female lead suggest that they go their separate ways. They do for a brief moment only for her to experience terrible morning sickness soon afterwards. Soon they find themselves in a contract relationship situation. For the sake of giving the unborn child status, they decide to marry but keep it a secret from their peers. In such a situation, the leads come with a lot of baggage. She has seemingly unrequited feelings for him but believes him to be still pining for his former girlfriend who comes rampaging back into his life just at the most inopportune moment. Captain Gao is more of an enigma. His feelings towards Shen Yaochu are harder to read. On the surface he appears to be going through the motions out of obligation. Or does Gao Yuchuan himself not know his own heart? This marks the start of a prolonged angsty push and pull of wrong assumptions and miscommunication — deliberate or accidental.