Resumo do episódio 18 de About Love
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When Mr. Lun returned home, his wife, Hui, confronted him with a series of incriminating photos on her computer. She demanded an explanation, but Mr. Lun remained cold, offering nothing in his defense. Hui pointed out the abandonment she felt, noting that while other husbands stay by their pregnant wives, he was busy seeking out other women.
She accused him of being unreliable, but Mr. Lun dismissed her frustration, stating that whether she chose to divorce him or fight for days, the drama was simply pointless. He claimed he was exhausted and refused to discuss the matter further. At the theater, Xiao Bei finally managed to corner Gong, who had been intentionally avoiding his messages. When Xiao Bei asked why he hadn't replied on WeChat, Gong feigned ignorance, claiming he hadn't seen the notifications.
Xiao Bei wasn't deterred and insisted they have a proper talk once the stage play ended. Soon, Sen arrived with Ming Ming, proudly showing off an outfit Ming Ming had helped him pick. The others teased him, joking that he looked like he was wearing his father's outdated clothes, but Sen brushed it off, telling Xiao Bei to worry about his own single status instead of his fashion. Backstage, Xiu went to find Luan Luan before the performance.
Luan Luan treated the evening as a final breakup ceremony, remarking that once the curtain fell, their connection would be over. She recalled their first meeting when she was on the stage and he was in the audience, suggesting that this was a poetic way to end things. Xiu noted that it is usually hard to see the audience from the stage, but Luan Luan felt that the lack of clarity made the separation even better.
They shared a final, lingering embrace before she had to prepare for her entrance. Yu also arrived backstage to present Luan Luan with a bouquet of flowers, wishing her a successful premiere. Luan Luan was surprised to see her, noting that she had only invited Xiu. Yu confronted her, but Luan Luan insisted that nothing physical had ever happened between her and Xiu.
She explained that while some men seek affairs for excitement, Xiu only came to her because he needed to breathe and rediscover a part of himself that had died. Luan Luan then showed Yu a song Xiu had written, pointedly showing that she was credited as the lyricist. She challenged Yu, asking if she cared about his talent or if she only cared about how much money his music earned for her.
Li Xiaoxi and her friends found their seats in the front row. Gong pointedly left a gap between himself and Xiao Bei, reserving the first seat for Xiu to keep himself at a distance. As the play began, it centered on the mysterious death of a musician named Mr. Xiu, whose body was discovered in his studio by a cleaning lady. Luan Luan played the role of a detective investigating the cause of death.
The play introduced the character of Mrs. Xiu, a woman who ran a clothing studio and had been absent from home for days. The performance became uncomfortably personal for the audience. An actor playing a fellow musician claimed that Mr. Xiu was talented, but that his wife’s interference had stifled his career. On stage, the detective accused Mrs. Xiu of never valuing her husband’s talent, instead pressuring him with worldly expectations and belittling his dignity.
The dialogue on stage mirrored the exact arguments Yu and Xiu had in private, including the harsh accusation that he was a social loser who would never find a wife if not for her. Yu was paralyzed with shock as she realized her private life had been laid bare for everyone to see. Unable to take it anymore, Yu fled the theater.
Xiu, realizing what was happening, chased after her to the parking lot, but she had already driven away in tears. Meanwhile, a scandal erupted in the audience as Hui posted a public exposure of Ming Ming on the internet, labeling her a home-wrecker. People nearby began whispering and pointing at Ming Ming, who felt the weight of their judgment and hurried out, with Sen quickly following to support her.
In the midst of the chaos, Yu He arrived at the theater, much to Gong's shock. He tried to explain his seating choice by claiming he just didn't want to be near Xiao Bei, but Yu He questioned whether he was actually afraid rather than just reluctant. Elsewhere, Yu drove past Ming Ming's shop and saw a poster for the play featuring a passionate kiss between Xiu and Luan Luan.
The sight was too much to bear, and she broke down into a fit of sobbing. The play concluded with a science fiction twist called Delusion Girl. In a future where Earth is destroyed and humanity lives on other planets, human emotions are suppressed through a genetic program to ensure reproduction quality. In this world, the concepts of love and lovers do not exist.
However, a man and a woman who once shared a life choose to erase their memories of each other to escape the pain of their past. Despite this, when they eventually encounter one another again in the ruins of Earth during an interstellar trip, they find themselves inexplicably drawn back together. After the show ended, Xiao Bei noticed Yu He in the crowd and pointed her out to Li Xiaoxi, and they went over to exchange greetings.
