A Long-Awaited Romance: Secretly in Love with Her

To save her bankrupt family, Chen Lin used a marriage contract to make an unremarkable "equal exchange" with Ji Siyu, her former classmate, longtime rival, and old flame.

In the years after their marriage, he was always a composed, detached man in control, giving her the most gracious respect and protection, along with the freedom to owe each other nothing. She thought it was just a rational act between adults, nothing more.

Until Ji Siyu became critically ill, hovering between life and death.

Only then did she see the love he'd kept hidden deep inside.

There was no restrained, mutual arrangement of convenience. There was only a man who couldn't even promise her tomorrow, staking his life on a gamble and burying, for ten years, the wish he had finally seen come true and the words he would never say.