[Gentle, restrained CEO × resilient, growing designer | Years of secret love finally fulfilled | Marriage before love | A broken relationship not yet mended | Misunderstandings and healing]
One kiss after a drunken night led to a marriage contract.
Lin Xi’s seven-year first love ended with a cold overseas text from Xu Ze. Still reeling from heartbreak, she got drunk at a celebratory banquet and accidentally kissed Shen Jinci, the CEO of a partner company, in front of her entire office.
To calm the situation, Shen Jinci handed her a signed marriage agreement. “Take responsibility.”
Forced to live together, Lin Xi only wanted to keep things within bounds.
But Shen Jinci’s constant “coincidences” unsettled her. He always knew exactly which documents she needed, remembered every one of her allergies, and quietly cleared every obstacle whenever she ran into trouble.
Until one day, Lin Xi opened a sealed door hidden behind a wall.
A wall covered in yellowed photos captured every little moment of her student days. Among the keepsakes were the scarf she had lost and the doodles she had thrown away...
On the open diary, every word burned into her heart:
“Seven years, four months, and six days. At last, this long-awaited rain has soaked me through.” “...”
The sound of a key turning came from outside. Lin Xi’s hand trembled around the yellowed pages, and her tears burst forth. She spun around and came face-to-face with Shen Jinci, just back home.
“All these years, was it you?”
He dropped every pretense of calm and restraint. Deep emotions she had never seen before surged in his eyes, and he answered in a husky voice:
“Yes. It was always me.”
It turned out that his most overwhelming love had been rising and falling in silence for years, just for her., Shen Jinci
