In contemporary East Asian contexts, romantic imagery and scripted love stories often sit alongside social pressures around marriage and reproduction. For many women, romance and marriage can feel closely tied to broader familial, economic, and demographic expectations rather than personal choice. This begs the question: what happens when closeness is shaped by social expectation, and intimacy is measured through reproduction? What becomes of those who step outside these demands? This programme emerges from that tension, reimagining marriage as a site of refusal, rebellion, and transformation.