COLLECTION · Series · 2014

七年之痒

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Wei Haidong and Chen Xiaohe, Shao Qiang and Han Bing, and Lin Tong and Xiang Chun are three couples with sharply contrasting personalities. Seven years into their marriages, their once-placid lives begin to show signs of restlessness in various forms. The seven-year itch: they had never believed that this pattern, summed up from ordinary people's experience, would ever apply to them. But as time slipped by, housing, cars, elderly parents, children, promotions, raises, and the daily grind of oil, salt, soy sauce, vinegar, and tea became the keywords of their lives. As the sweetness of love was gradually eroded by life's harsh realities, cracks began to appear in their relationships, and their marriages grew precarious. Yet after the storms passed, they eventually came to understand that any passion-filled marriage, once worn down by time, will face all kinds of problems. Still, marriage turns lovers into lifelong companions, and seven years of shared life make a partner into family. In their marriages, through all the stumbling and the partings and reunions, they ultimately learned to love and be loved, and found their own sweet happiness.