Dwelling Narrowness

Title: 蜗居 (Wo Ju) / Dwelling Narrowness
Genre: Economy, romance
Original novel: Wo Ju by Liu Liu
Scriptwriters: Liu Liu, Teng Hua Tao, Cao Dun
Director: Teng Hua Tao
Broadcast network: Shanghai Tv
Broadcast period: 2009-Jul
Episodes: 35

Dwelling Narrowness, a hit TV series about the struggles of two sisters to make it in a dynamic metropolis modeled on Shanghai, focuses on a decidedly less glamorous aspect of life in the big city: rising property prices, and they havoc this wreaks on youthful ambitions.

The story follows the travails of the Guo sisters, Haiping and Haizao. After graduating from a top university in the fictional city (called Jiangzhou), elder sister Haiping and her boyfriend - later husband - Su Chun, who both hail from small towns in southern China, decide stay in the city, full of high expectations about their future. In order to save up to buy a home of their own, the couple rents a shabby old attic apartment measuring a little over 100 square feet (10 square meters), sharing a toilet and kitchen with their neighbors. The place is so small they have to send their daughter back to their hometown to be raised by her grandparents. To economize even further, they subsist on a diet of instant noodles. However, skyrocketing real estate prices in city push a new home far beyond the couple’s affordability, and this later becomes a major source of conflict in the relationship. At one point, they fight over the expenditure of one yuan.

Meanwhile, younger sister Haizao, who followed her sister to the city for college, also stays on after graduation.

Haiping finally sets her sights on an apartment on the outskirts of of the metropolis, even though she and her husband can barely afford it. The monthly payments on the 20-year mortgage for the 900,000 yuan apartment will come to 6,000 yuan, and the couple’s combined salary per month is only around 9,000 yuan. But Haiping lacks the money for a 20% down-payment, so Haizao, an otherwise innocent type with a loving boyfriend, steps in to help by becoming the mistress of a high-ranking official in the city mayor’s office. It gets worse for Haizao: She suffers a miscarriage and her lover commits suicide after being accused of taking bribes. Her sister Haiping fares somewhat better, eventually moving into her new home with her husband and reuniting with her daughter.

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