After three years of marriage, Su Wan and Lu Chengyu’s relationship had long since withered in silence. On the day they signed the divorce papers, she watched his elegant fingers put pen to paper. Her voice was as calm as if she were talking about someone else. “Mr. Lu, from now on, we owe each other nothing.”
He was the Lu Group’s CEO, a man who could turn the business world on its head with a flick of his wrist. Calm and self-possessed, he never let emotion show in his eyes. Only with her was there always a faint, distant reserve. She was a modestly successful illustrator, sensitive and perceptive. The faint beauty mark beneath her right eye, which he had kissed countless times, now reflected only the divorce papers bearing their signatures.
As she turned away, she thought she was finally free. But just as the elevator doors closed, she glimpsed him raising a hand to press his brow. Those perpetually indifferent eyes of his had grown red around the rims.
After the divorce, their lives should have run on parallel tracks. But he always appeared when she was at her most wretched: taking her to the hospital on a rainy night, shielding her from difficult clients, even clumsily learning to make her favorite sweet-and-sour ribs. She thought she was imagining it, until she found an old photo album buried away for years. In the moments hidden beneath their misunderstandings, he had stood all night in the pouring rain beneath her art studio, waited for her, remembered her offhand preferences in his notes, and cried countless times where she couldn’t see him.
The road to rekindled love is never free of thorns. The truth from three years ago is gradually revealed: his coldness had been meant to protect her, and she had left to give him a chance. When every misunderstanding is finally cleared up, they dare at last to reach out and embrace each other. But they don’t know that fate has already planted a sharper blade in the dark. All the time they lost, all the wounds carved into their very bones, have ultimately become something that cannot be erased after their reunion
