One Slap Destroyed Our Marriage

About this drama

Fifteen hundred characters, among the longest listings in this batch's machine-translated cluster, breaking off mid-sentence, read through rather than copied. Marianne Whitlock is born into one of America's top pharmaceutical dynasties, and to preserve her husband Conrad Mercer's sense of dignity she has long stepped back from group management, devoting herself to family and their daughter Hope. Backed by her father Alistair, Conrad becomes CEO of Whitlock Therapeutics, and fifteen years of marriage build a stable public image. The copy states her quiet knowledge plainly, she has long suspected another woman and knows portions of the group's assets are being siphoned off, and she holds back on one stated belief, that Conrad would never harm his own biological daughter. That belief is the title's target. Hope brings her straight-A report card to surprise her father at his office and walks in on Conrad and Bianca Rowe in a disheveled state, and the enraged Bianca slaps the girl and crushes her hand beneath a high-heel shoe. Hope begs her father for help, and Conrad merely straightens his clothes and coldly tells his daughter to go home. The child returns with a soiled report card and an injured hand, questioning whether she herself did something wrong, and when Marianne sees the handprint on her daughter's cheek, the copy breaks off mid-word at the moment of realization, that her years of forbearance have only emboldened the offenders. How the marriage falls and what the counterstrike looks like are the show's to supply. Forty episodes, complete, 2,182 views.

Tags