Season 1 • Episode 26
LatestXia Tian is a young woman, who is still single. Her sister is about to be married and one day Xia Tian overhears her mother talking to her sister, that if she will come to the marriage of her sister with a boyfriend, her mother will pay for the marriage. Xia Tian has 258 days to find a boyfriend, in order to score off her bothersome mother and to enable her sister a wonderful marriage.
Acting
Jiang Xin commits to desperation like it's an Olympic sport
Writing
258-day countdown creates delicious pressure-cooker structure
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The 'leftover women' (剩女) phenomenon in China makes Xia Tian's panic uncomfortably real—marriage pressure is genuine social anxiety, not just sitcom fodder.
52 episodes for one fake boyfriend arc? Chinese dramas famously stretch premises to absurd lengths, making every glance span three episodes minimum.
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