The night before the graduation exhibition, Lin Wei discovered the betrayal of her boyfriend Chen Jingming. The intimate figure in the photo, the unfamiliar smell of perfume in the hotel room, and the sentence "We are not from the same place", like a knife tempered with ice, shattered her entire youthful yearning.
What's even more fatal is that Chen Jingming not only cheated on her, but also secretly mortgaged her father's factory contract and owed huge gambling debts. Red paint for debt collection was splashed on the factory door, his father fell ill and was admitted to the ICU, and Lin Wei's world collapsed into ruins within a week.
When they were desperate, the Chen family handed over a gold-plated red post - Chen Zhiyan, Chen Jingming's always silent uncle with eyes like deep pools, proposed a deal: marry him, and he will pay off all the debts of the Chen family and keep the Lin family safe.
"This marriage is only for outsiders to see. It has nothing to do with each other. We will divorce when the time comes." Lin Wei clutched the pen and signed the contract. The tip of the pen scratched not only the page, but also her last thoughts about love.
She became the aunt of her ex-boyfriend and lived in the Chen family's old house under the same roof as the man who was eight years older than her and was always calm and self-possessed. He shielded her from the difficulties of her relatives and handed her turpentine when she couldn't draw, but he never asked her more about her past.
But when Chen Jingming looked back with regret, when the undercurrent of the family surged, and when warmth gradually emerged under the cold shell of the contract, Lin Wei discovered that this marriage, which began with compensation, might hide a more complicated sincerity than betrayal.
And that silent man, already out of sight of her, held up a sky that would not rain for her.
