Chen Man: Gentleness is at her core, but it isn’t all she is.
Shen Huaiming: He thought he was a pawn, only to realize in the end that he had laid out the entire game long ago.
Both of them secretly chose to marry for their own reasons. As they spent time together, they couldn’t tell whether they were simply acting too well or if their feelings were genuine. Gradually, they fell in love, but on the eve of the wedding, Chen Man was misled into believing that Shen Huaiming had taken her as a substitute. She wanted to ask him for the truth, but overheard a conversation that left her suffocating.
“Shen, are you really sure you want to use marriage as a cover to find the person behind what happened all those years ago? If you do this, there’ll really be no future for you and Chen Man.”
“Nothing matters more to me than what happened back then.”
Chen Man chose to run away from the wedding without looking back. Shen Huaiming was caught in a dilemma, but in the end he chose Chen Man and decided to leave the past behind.
It wasn’t until Chen Man attended the Shen Group’s annual gala and Shen Huaiming transferred all his assets to her that everyone understood just how good he was at pursuing his wife. After she got pregnant, Chen Man loved visiting Shen Huaiming at the office. One day, she overheard people talking about him in the elevator lobby.
“Looks like the CEO and his wife went from sleeping together to falling in love.”
“And they’re completely besotted with each other.”
