Chemistry Is Instinct, and So Is Loving You

They were once evenly matched rivals at law school, and each other’s unspoken first love.

A glance across the debate podium was all it took for one to catch the other’s next line. That unspoken understanding belonged to Jiang Shiyu and Lu Huaichuan alone.

But it ended the year they graduated, when he suddenly announced he was getting married. She left with her unspoken love and bitter disappointment, becoming a cool-headed, sharp-tongued divorce lawyer at a top firm. She dismantled one broken relationship after another, yet could never untangle the knot in her own heart.

Three years later, a new hire suddenly appeared at the firm. It was Lu Huaichuan, now her “ex-husband.”

He was the stranger she knew best, her “best debate partner” etched into her muscle memory, and an “unresolved old case” sealed away in her emotional files.

Forced to work together, they face the bizarre battlefield of marriage: from celebrity feuds to inheritance fights among the wealthy, from the prison of emotional abuse to the tragedy of women married to gay men. They are allies who understand exactly where the other’s blade is aimed, yet also exes separated by three years of silence and a huge misunderstanding.

Until one day, a complicated case involving old grievances tears open the truth about what happened back then.

It turns out the marriage he gave in to was a cruel bargain made to protect her future.

It turns out he never betrayed her. He had simply chosen the quietest way to protect her.