The day her grandfather fell gravely ill, Xie Xia used a forty-year-old almanac to force the heir to the He Group into marriage.
She felt guilty, so she decided to make it up to her sham husband after the wedding.
She moved into his home, determined to do everything she could to take care of him.
The man wore a black cashmere coat. His features were handsome, his gaze cold and sharp. Though his eyes held a veneer of courtesy as he looked at her, they couldn’t conceal his indifference, as if he couldn’t stand her.
Xie Xia understood. Who would like a stranger who forced them into marriage at their very first meeting?
That same day, He Heng produced a contract and laid down three rules.
No wedding, no telling anyone they were married, and no interfering in each other’s social lives.
They would give the marriage a year. If they still weren’t suited to each other, they would divorce and go their separate ways.
Xie Xia knew she was in the wrong, so she signed immediately.
She promised to leave the moment the year was up and never get in the way of him finding someone else.
In public, they kept their marriage secret and pretended not to know each other. At home, they stayed out of each other’s way.
Xie Xia thought keeping their marriage under wraps was just fine. She would fulfill her grandfather’s final wish, and a divorce wouldn’t affect her too much.
But on the very day the year was up, when she asked for a divorce, He Heng stumbled drunk into her room.
Pointing toward the balcony, he said, “Let’s see what happens first: you becoming single again, or me jumping off.”
At first, he really had thought she was a scheming gold digger. He used the contract to keep her from claiming his assets and kept her away from his family. He wanted to avoid getting too emotionally entangled, so they could part cleanly when they divorced. Who would have thought he’d be the one bound so tightly by the contract that he could hardly breathe?
“I’m not getting divorced. If you want to be single again, you’ll have to wait until I’m dead.”
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