After Faking a Marriage with My Childhood Friend, I Discovered His Little Secret!

“I used to avert my eyes when you could see me, and follow you with my gaze when you couldn’t.”

[Secret crush + childhood friends][Sweet from beginning to end, slow-paced, and well worth reading.]

Unable to escape her family’s pressure to marry, Jiang Fenghe decides to find someone she knows inside out. She proposes to her childhood friend Zhou Yunian, and a marriage contract sets their fake-marriage life in motion.

In everyone else’s eyes, they’re childhood sweethearts, a perfectly matched couple from compatible families. Their elders are delighted, too.

Only Jiang Fenghe knows how hastily this marriage came about.

As they spend their days together and film a dating show, their layers of pretense are slowly peeled away. It turns out his feelings have been written, stroke by stroke, across her entire youth.

She opens his private diary, titled Wind and Grain in Perfect Harmony, and finally understands the little acts of tenderness she overlooked all those years.

Hesitation, testing the waters, push and pull: love quietly takes root.

For Zhou Yunian, even a fake marriage was the beginning he had always dreamed of. Those unconscious, impossible-to-hide acts of favoritism finally let his long-held secret love come true.