Don’t read this!!! The pacing didn’t work out, and the story strayed from its intended course.
At twenty-four, Xin Lang falls for a man from the Xu family.
She pursues him passionately. Everyone in their circle knows she likes him, but he doesn’t return her feelings.
After her tenth confession is rejected, she resolutely prepares to confess for the eleventh time.
But the next day, her mother tells her she has to marry into the Zhao family because her father’s company needs the Zhao family’s support.
She demands, “If I have to sacrifice my love for financial gain, we might as well let the company go bankrupt.”
Everyone says that Zhao Boyu, the thirty-year-old head of the Zhao family, once loved someone but could never be with her.
They all assume he’ll stay true to that unrequited love and refuse this marriage arrangement.
But to their surprise, he agrees. And in the days that follow, he often mentions his wife.
At first, she says, “A marriage certificate can’t take away my freedom. Let’s give it two years. As long as neither of us does anything that would bring shame on us during that time, we won’t interfere in each other’s lives. When the two years are up, we go our separate ways.”
He agrees.
But later, he says, “Langlang, try to love me.”
Later still, he finds the divorce papers in a study drawer and asks, hurt and upset, “So you still want to divorce me?”
She says, “What if I do?”
His eyes immediately turn red.
Once, he caught a fleeting glimpse of someone and missed his chance to get to know her.
Later, by some kindness of fate, a marriage contract brought her back into his life.
[Regrets are common, but even a happiness that arrives by chance is precious.]
