An unexpected incident forces Zhu Yao to take another look at her relationship with Jiang Yunze.
During their cold war, she sees a photo her best friend sent her.
Jiang Yunze is kissing a girl downstairs from her apartment building.
She hears the woman say, “She’s carrying Jiang Yunze’s child.”
Whenever she runs into Jiang Tingzhou, she’s very reserved, obediently calling him, “Uncle Five.”
For a while, she thinks of him as an elder, and is even a little afraid of him.
One day, he comes to her building and says, “Marry me.”
She asks why.
He needs someone for a marriage alliance, and as it happens, she’s also looking for someone to help her deal with her father.
That reason isn’t enough to convince her to impulsively marry the elder of her ex-boyfriend.
In the end, he tells her that he is Jiang Yan.
Later, she discovers Jiang Tingzhou’s secret.
A secret that remained hidden from the light of day for fourteen years.
She asks him, “What if I really had married Jiang Yunze back then?”
That night, Zhu Yao loses herself in him.
She thinks that if things had really gone that way, Jiang Yan would have disappeared from her life completely when she was eight, never to return.
The crown he hadn’t managed to give her when she was eighteen would never have reached her hands.
After they marry, he patiently pursues her until she falls for him, repeatedly cursing him as a “handsome beast.”
Late at night, the head of Huasheng, cold and decisive in the eyes of outsiders, can’t resist whispering sweet nothings against her ear.
He once wrote the most beautiful words of love.
“She is the brightest pearl, and all I want is to keep her shining forever, whether near or far.”
Seven-year age gap (both have only ever been with each other) & secret crush comes true & wealthy families
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