A Day-and-Night Wedding

[Adorable Girlfriend, Dotting Boyfriend]

(Warning: This is not a strong-female-lead story! The heroine is a sweet, delicate little princess. Read for fun; much of the setting is the author's own invention, so please don't overanalyze it. The more the earlier chapters set things up, the better the story gets later on.)

As the only daughter of the Jiang family, Jiang Li had been cherished by her family since childhood, treated as if she might break if they held her too tightly or melt if they kept her in their mouths. There was just one exception: he never indulged her. He taught her how to grow up and how to deal with people. Whenever she threw a tantrum, he would calmly say, “Xiao Li, be good.” He coaxed her to sleep when she couldn't, and like a big brother, accepted all her whims and little moods. With him by her side, she seemed to have the confidence and courage to keep making mistakes. He always said, “Our Lili is growing up.” Through all the years they grew up together, she had hated him and loved him. In the end, she finally married Xie Peizhi.

Xie Peizhi had a secret no one knew. After an accident, he became a cripple who could no longer feel emotions. There was only one person who could make him feel anything, but he couldn't be so selfish, so he lied. He began studying other people's movements and imitating their expressions. In front of a shattered mirror, he practiced smiling over and over, almost as if punishing himself. At last, he saw the girl he had longed for day and night again, became her husband, and heard her call him “Zhizhi.” He suppressed his feelings, telling himself it was enough to be her brother. He would leave once she found a good match. When she grew up a little more, he would surely wish her well and go. But one day, he saw the girl who had always been so well-behaved bring a strange man into their home. For the first time, he was neither polite nor gentlemanly. No one knew that, in that moment, his world had fallen apart.