Joyous Days, Year After Year

[Clear-eyed, broken genius x devoted believer who plans every step] [Two equally matched leads heal each other x sweet romance and comfort x mutual pining comes true x marriage before love] At twelve, Mu Shihuan, the little princess of the Mu family, became the one everyone rejected. She even began to think her name was ironic: though it carried hope and blessings, in the end she could only rely on medication to stay alive. With nowhere else to turn, she had a chip implanted in herself. She no longer needed medication, but she became like a living corpse, without a single emotion. Then one day, at the auction held during her homecoming banquet, the scent of cedar drifted over from beside her, accompanied by a man’s quiet attempt at conversation. “Miss Mu, what did you study?” What a strange question, Mu Shihuan thought, but she answered politely all the same. After that, though, she kept feeling as if her chip had malfunctioned. Her emotions began to stir again, and her heart started beating. * It was only after their marriage, when she saw a portrait of herself in He Jinzhou’s study, that she realized everything had been planned long ago. All along, through those long, damp years, someone had been thinking of her. And the words he had spoken when they first met were the careful opening line he had spent years preparing to say.