“I’m sorry, Xiaxia. I can’t just leave her without taking responsibility.”
On her birthday, Li Yan, her boyfriend of many years, extinguishes every candle and hope with those words. Still wearing her birthday hat, Xiaxia cries and grabs hold of him, asking why, but all she gets in return is three words: “I’m sorry.”
She knows Li Yan has an ex-girlfriend who hurt him deeply. She just never expected that after all these years at his side, she would still lose out to the woman coming back to him.
That night, Xiaxia gets drunk on a street corner and stumbles into the arms of a man who looks seventy percent like Li Yan, but is more striking and imposing.
On impulse, she kisses him.
That man is Li Jingshen.
The true power behind the Li family, and Li Yan’s older brother.
One accident, one child, one marriage contract.
Xiaxia becomes Li Yan’s “sister-in-law.”
Only Li Jingshen knows that on that drunken night, he could have pushed her away.
He didn’t.
After they marry, he gives her everything, including his love.
Xiaxia thinks their marriage is just an act they’re forced to continue, until the child is born and she asks to leave.
Li Jingshen gazes silently at her for a long time. In the end, he simply unclasps the “Eternity Ring” she has never once taken off, and calmly says, “All right.”
He sets her free, along with the world she thought he didn’t care about.
Not long after leaving Li Jingshen, Xiaxia begins her long, painful journey to win him back.
Sweet romance + pursuing her husband + age gap + long-laid plans
