Only After We Married Did I Discover He Was Loving Me at the Cost of His Life

【One-on-one + healing + love at first sight + bittersweet yet doting + happy ending】 【Smiling, depressed young master as the receiver × older, caring CEO as the giver】 For twenty-six years, Shen Yuan'an had been the “sensible” eldest son of the Shen family. He had practiced his smile and hidden his emotions. No one knew about his depression. He had turned himself into a perfect empty shell, waiting for the day he could no longer hold on and quietly shattered. Until Lu Yanzhou appeared. The man crouched down in the parking lot and reached out to him, saying something he had never heard before: “You don’t have to smile around me.” Shen Yuan'an thought this was salvation. Later, he discovered that the marriage had been Lu Yanzhou’s scheme from beginning to end. His breakdown, his despair, the “being seen” he thought he had found: it had all been planned. It turned out he had merely happened to show up just as Lu Yanzhou was preparing to reach out and save someone. But he was pathetic. He couldn’t bear to lose this last bit of tenderness, even if it was fake. He tried desperately to please and accommodate him, but never expected that Lu Yanzhou also had someone he had loved for years. He was so tired... He couldn’t go on. He left a letter and disappeared somewhere Lu Yanzhou couldn’t find him. “You acted so well, I almost believed you.”