COLLECTION · Series · 2013

老公的春天

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Gong Xi (played by Zhang Guoli) has endured years of grinding effort, and just as he can see himself finally being promoted from deputy section chief to full section chief, before he even has time to celebrate, a family crisis quietly closes in. His wife Ai Jiaojiao (played by Wang Yajie) summons him home with a single phone call, then tears into him without a moment's hesitation or any attempt to get to the bottom of things. Gong Xi kneels on the floor scrubbing it, utterly without the nerve to talk back. Ai Jiaojiao was a campus beauty in her day, with no fewer than a reinforced company's worth of suitors trailing after her, yet she took a liking to none of them and "married down" to Gong Xi, a penniless young man with grand ambitions. After years of being worn down by office bureaucracy, Gong Xi long ago lost the drive and fighting spirit he once had, while Ai Jiaojiao, whose career has been soaring, increasingly looks down on her mediocre, spineless husband. She proposes divorce. Gong Xi, repressed for so long, agrees to the divorce, but he demands that custody of their son Dengdeng (played by Cui Can) go to him...