“What's it like to marry the guy who sat behind you for two years in high school?”
The top-voted answer on Zhihu read: “Even better than I imagined in high school.”
The replies beneath it came one after another:
“Teacher, this isn't a no-man's-land.”
Shen Jiasui turns off her phone and looks at the blurred figure reflected in the bathroom glass. Her face burns red.
She had imagined countless ways she might reunite with Chu Shiyi, but never thought he would show up at her engagement party.
Gone is the gentle manner he once had. He wraps his arms around her from behind, grips her chin, and forces her to look at the indecent scene in the room.
“Shen Jiasui, your fiancé is seeing another woman. Do you really want to spend your life with someone like that?”
“Call off the engagement.” His voice is hoarse, his eyes filled with obsession. “I need a wife who knows me inside and out. You're perfect.”
*
When Chu Shiyi was sixteen, he met Shen Jiasui, the girl who sat in front of him. She was a wealthy girl who had transferred from the capital and knew nothing of life's hardships. Beautiful and popular, she struck him as a busybody. Then one day, the girl touched the wound on his forehead, her eyes red. Her fingers were icy and her voice trembled, yet she kept telling him, “Don't be afraid. I'm here.”
People who have rarely known kindness are easily moved by even the smallest warmth. But Shen Jiasui didn't know that he had always been greedy. He wanted the moon to hang high in the sky and shine on him alone.
【Flirtatious, gentle archaeologist × dark, obsessive, scheming tycoon】
【Reunion after years apart + healing + both inexperienced in love + male “homewrecker”】
Content notes: The heroine has no romantic feelings for her fiancé; their engagement is purely for business, and the hero breaks them up during the engagement. The school years take up half the story.
