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1970s Mediator: I Tried to Reconcile, But They All Divorced!

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In 1970, Lin Xiaoman, a young educated youth newly appointed as a mediation committee member in Taohua Commune, takes on her task with the creed of "reconcile, not separate"—to fix three feuding couples. But her earnest mediation turns into a divorce accelerator: The arranged-marriage educated youth couple, awakened by her words "a loveless marriage is a chain", tearfully file for divorce; The rural couple, tormented by the pressure to have a son, finally untie themselves after she says "You are yourself first, then a parent"; Even the seemingly loving cadre couple, exposed by her to their "hypocrisy of maintaining face", calmly end their loveless union. When the commune secretary slams the table and accuses her of "disrupting norms", Lin Xiaoman looks at those smiling "ex-spouses" and wonders: Is "muddling through" really the only answer to marriage? And will the unspoken rifts between her and her childhood sweetheart, another educated youth, become her next mediation case?

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