Shen Zhiwei is the quietest shadow in the Shen family.
As a shady illegitimate daughter, she was trained to be a perfect substitute - to replace her missing twin sister and marry Gu Chenzhou, a new technology upstart. On the night of the wedding, he looked at her face and said, "You are better than her." She agreed with a smile and locked the memory of the rainy night when she was fifteen into the deepest drawer.
After three years of contract marriage, she was his Mrs. Gu in name but actually a transparent person. He kissed her drunkenly, but called her sister's name; she had a high fever and fell into coma, but he turned around and left because of the "knowing" overseas phone call; she published her first SCI paper, and he sent congratulations, but the recipient was the woman who pretended to be her life.
Until she found a yellowed photo in her study - a fifteen-year-old self carrying an injured boy through a rainy night, with "Waiting for me to find you" written on the back. It turns out that he was looking for her all along, and she couldn't even hate him because those tendernesses were stolen.
She was diagnosed with emotional dissociation disorder, calmly handed over divorce papers, and dealt with heartbreak like experimental data. When he tore up the agreement, she had already left for Zurich: "The contract expired and everything was settled."
Later, Gu Chenzhou found out the truth and chased her to her academic conference. While looking up from the audience, he finally heard her say: "I once thought I needed to borrow the light of others, but later I discovered that I am the source of light."
This time, it was him who borrowed her light.
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The language description is delicate, the writing is smooth, and the emotions are deeply portrayed.
The language description is delicate, the writing is smooth, and the emotions are deeply portrayed.