[Marriage first, love later + older man + sweet pampering + childhood sweetheart's groveling arc]
[Arrogant, clingy heiress x noble, steady man in power]
Shen Qitang has awakened to the truth.
In the original story, she is the villainess who can't win the male lead Zhou Jinyi's love, so she turns around and marries his uncle. She then gets jealous of the female lead and trips her up at every opportunity.
After her husband dies, the male and female leads send her to a mental hospital, where they torment and violate her until she finally takes her own life in despair.
After learning how miserable her fate will be, Shen Qitang stops loving the male lead and stops targeting the female lead.
Every day, she stays by her domineering husband's side, afraid that if he suddenly kicks the bucket, her wonderful life will go up in smoke.
If her husband stays up late, she coaxes him to sleep. If he drinks, she takes his glass away. If he goes to work, she follows him.
Her guiding principle is simply to never leave his side.
Zhou Beizheng accepts it all without complaint.
When Shen Qitang is away, a friend quietly asks him:
“Your wife clings to you so much. Doesn't it get annoying?”
Zhou Beizheng unscrews the thermos Shen Qitang packed for him, smiles, and shakes his head.
“No. I'm the one clinging to her. I can't live without her.”
Without her, Zhou Beizheng might already have accepted his fate and gone to his death.
Zhou Jinyi always thought that even if he really fell in love with someone else, Shen Qitang would spend her whole life chasing after him and getting jealous over him.
Only when Shen Qitang truly turned her gaze away did he realize how terribly wrong he had been.
He exhausts every means to win her back and beg her, but all he gets in return is one sentence from Shen Qitang.
“You unfilial nephew, I'm your aunt by marriage now.”
