Postscript of Love

Episode 1

Ruth Shaw has spent three years in a marriage that feels like a punishment. Ivan Green makes no secret of his contempt, telling her that every day with her disgusts him and only makes him love someone else more. Then a dream delivers a brutal verdict: terminal liver cancer, one month left at most.

She wakes determined to go home. When Ivan's latest betrayal surfaces, Ruth confronts him with a number that says everything — this is the ninety-ninth time she has caught him in bed with someone else. She says the words she has swallowed for years: she wants a divorce.

Episode 2

Ivan is thrown by Ruth's sudden demand, but she stands firm — she finally regrets marrying him. Talk swirls about a runaway groom and a wedding that nearly became a farce, and Ivan's attention drifts toward Summer Ford, the woman everyone assumes he truly wants.

Ruth doesn't beg. She has a divorce agreement drawn up and tells him she wants nothing — only for the relationship to end. Ivan suspects a trick, certain she'll bolt before the paperwork is done. Ruth insists she's serious this time and presses to go to the registry office immediately, though a thirty-day cooling-off period stands in their way.

Episode 3

Ivan's circle assumes he's finally free, celebrating his escape and joking that he can play the field openly now. His friends openly doubt Ruth will actually show up when the cooling-off period ends.

Ivan calls to test her, needling her about whether she's playing games. Ruth gives him nothing to hold onto. After three years of enduring everything in silence, her sudden willingness to walk away unsettles him more than he admits. He can't tell if she's serious or setting a trap — and he can't stop wondering why she's so calm.

Episode 4

Ruth agrees to sign — but only if Ivan completes ten things with her first. Once the ten are done, she promises to vanish from his life forever, a clean goodbye.

The first task: accompany her to a charity dinner. Ivan can't hide his irritation, certain she's eager to be rid of him, and Ruth privately notes her time is running short. At the dinner, she reaches for his hand in public for the first time, and the room buzzes — weren't they divorcing? Why does the couple everyone wrote off suddenly look so close?

Episode 5

At the dinner's auction, a painting by the celebrated artist Rina comes up — an early work from her years in France, now worth a fortune. Ivan raises his paddle, and the bidding climbs fast: three hundred thousand, five hundred thousand, then a million.

Ivan wins at five million, and the crowd reads it as devotion to his wife. Then the truth lands: the painting isn't for Ruth at all. The humiliation is public and total. Ruth walks out, and Ivan follows — furious, baffled, and demanding to know what she's doing. The night ends with Ruth gone and Ivan's calls going unanswered.

Episode 6

Ruth returns the wedding ring, telling Ivan that the home and he no longer belong to her. Then she disappears — phone off, unreachable, for a week. Ivan's calls go straight to voicemail, and his frustration curdles into something closer to panic.

Meanwhile, Ruth is quietly dealing with her failing health. When Ivan finally tracks her down, she's cold and dismissive, refusing to explain. He heads abroad, and Ruth learns he's gone — possibly to Summer Ford. A boarding call sounds, a gift is waiting overseas, and Ruth is left to wonder who Ivan is really chasing.

Episode 7

Ruth travels to a scenic town, keeping her distance and trying to find some peace in the scenery. Ivan follows, and the trip immediately turns tense — Ruth accuses him of coming only because Summer Ford happens to be nearby, sketching.

Ivan insists the trip has nothing to do with Summer and warns Ruth not to make trouble for her. The warning cuts deep: after everything, his first instinct is still to protect the other woman. Ruth refuses to be painted as the jealous wife, and the standoff leaves the real question hanging — why did Ivan really come all this way?

Episode 8

Summer Ford shows up uninvited, playing the delicate victim while Ivan fusses over whether Ruth has eaten. The mask slips fast: Summer accuses Ruth of stealing someone else's life and mocks her for coming back looking for an old flame after being rejected abroad.

Ruth doesn't take it quietly. When a suitcase gets knocked over, Summer twists it into proof that Ruth is hostile and threatens to leave — but Ivan stops her, insisting she stay for the third task. Ruth watches the performance and sees exactly who she's dealing with. The task list continues, and so does the humiliation.

Episode 9

Ruth needles Ivan about his real plan — divorcing her to marry Summer Ford. He accuses her of doing the tasks half-heartedly and questions whether she even wants the divorce anymore.

Then he delivers a threat: if Ruth ever touches Summer again, he'll destroy her. Ruth, who is quietly dying, asks him flatly whether he'd regret how he treated her if she were gone. Ivan's answer is cruel — he'd celebrate. She absorbs it without flinching and tells him the fourth task will arrive by message. Whatever affection she once had is gone.

Episode 10

The fourth task sends them somewhere Ivan finds childish — and he's late again. Ruth has cut her hair, hiding the truth of her chemotherapy, and asks him to take her photo. He refuses.

They end up on a Ferris wheel, where Ruth says she simply wanted to try it. Summer Ford appears, and she and Ivan share memories of riding it as children, leaving Ruth on the outside of a moment she can't enter. The night closes on Ruth alone with her secrets, her countdown, and a plan Ivan knows nothing about.