

Description
A marriage begins the way city stories often do - quickly, brightly, and with more confidence than clarity. Mr. and Mrs. Claude Turpin step into married life already surrounded by elegance that doesn’t quite belong to their income. The apartment is luxurious, the expectations are high, and the lifestyle feels carefully constructed rather than naturally lived. Everything appears successful on the surface: furniture, routines, appearances, even happiness itself. But behind it runs a quieter arithmetic - money, obligations, and the strange urban skill of making limitation look like abundance. It’s a romance shaped not only by affection, but by the architecture of modern city life, where love and expense share the same room.
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