[Faithful to Each Other + Bittersweet Ending + Love at First Sight + Love That Grows Over Time + A Little Brat + A Little Aggrieved + Strong Female Lead + Devoted to One Person for Life]
"Do you believe love can grow over time?"
"Do you believe in love at first sight?"
"No. I believe in neither. I only believe in working hard and relying on myself."
If love means treating the other person better than yourself and giving more of your feelings than you keep for yourself, then love does not exist in this world.
And yet, that is exactly what true love is.
She loved his domineering stubbornness. It began with his looks, then she fell for his talent and character. Yet she turned him down again and again.
Because she knew all too well that true love did not exist in this world. Unless that person was another version of yourself, since you are the only one who loves you most.
He was no playboy. This was his first relationship, and the first time he had wanted to marry someone.
But none of that counted as true love.
Zijing felt that the only person in the world who treated her well was herself. Whoever was with her would fail to live up to her own pure and kind heart. No one could love her more than she loved herself, and neither could he.
The north wind howled across the wilds, and snow blanketed the courtyard. Zijing walked alone through it, gazing up at the sky. She had arrived with nothing and would leave with nothing. When would she finally find true love? What was love, anyway?
But in another world, another male version of herself was with her, treating her even better than he treated himself. Perhaps that was what people called true love.
But it did not exist in this world, and there was no point in hoping for it anymore.
In this world, she would treat marriage as a transaction.
