The Marriage of Salted Fish

Tong Beibei is good-tempered, confident, optimistic, and loves life, but lacks ambition in work—a laid-back slacker through and through. Qin Ling is wholly devoted to his career; life is work, work is life. Tong Beibei married Qin Ling because Qin Ling is handsome, generous, and easy-going, allowing him to enjoy a married life free from work and brimming with freedom. Qin Ling married Tong Beibei because Tong is good-natured and perfectly idle—no matter when he returns home, it's always warm, clean, and filled with delicious meals. They agreed to a one-year trial marriage: if they got along, they'd stay together; if not, they'd part amicably. When the year was up, Tong Beibei felt troubled—Qin Ling was coming home way too often now, hugging him, kissing him... The lazy life was getting exhausting! Qin Ling was also anxious—why hadn’t Beibei asked for his salary card yet? Or set a curfew just for him? Why wasn’t he questioning where that perfume scent on him came from? Among all his married friends, why was he the only one who’d never kneeled on a washboard? Hesitantly, Tong Beibei glanced at Qin Ling, wondering if he should gently hint at dialing it back—he hadn’t been getting his full ten hours of sleep lately. Before he could speak, Qin Ling cut in: "Divorce? Dream on!"