Boundaries in Marriage

She was the unremarkable girl next door from his youth, and the "contract wife" he personally signed for the sake of protecting the woman he loved. Yang Mei once thought loving Gu Zi'an was her own private affair. Only when she was forced to watch him give everything to another woman did she learn to hide her feelings. To preserve the family's reputation, they also unexpectedly became "parents," giving his younger brother's abandoned baby a "respectable" identity. Forced to live together, they played the most familiar strangers under the same roof. Until one day, Gu Zi'an suddenly looked back and realized the girl who had always stood behind him no longer had stars in her eyes. When he panicked for her for the first time and wanted to make amends, all he got in return was her calm smile: "Gu Zi'an, the play is over."