A Lover's Heart Is a Diamond

[Hong Kong Vibes / Wealthy-Family Romance / Childhood Sweethearts / Reunion After Years Apart / Mutual Secret Crushes]

A contractual marriage between a jewelry designer and a family heir

Shu Yuying returned from London to Hong Kong after a phone call from her grandfather summoned her home.

Half the wealth accumulated by three generations of the Shu family would be transferred to her, on the condition that she marry someone from a family of equal standing.

She refused to sell herself for money, but on a terrace on Barker Road, she ran into Wen Jingci again: her childhood sweetheart, who had sat two rows behind her since middle school, and the man who hadn’t even dared to come to the airport to see her off when she flew to London four years ago.

He had waited so long that he’d learned to hide his devotion behind coldness, and to replace pleas for her to stay with distance.

But she had left in such a hurry that she’d forgotten to look back at him.

“Shu Yuying, it’s been a long time. I’ve missed you.”

One embrace, and years of longing.

She took the opportunity to propose a marriage of convenience. He accepted her ring, with just one condition: “You can’t divorce me.”

From a contract to a fluttering heart, from the morning light at a Repulse Bay villa to dusk outside a Milanese church, two clever people fall in love in the guise of marriage, just as they’d long planned.

But the rules of Hong Kong’s wealthy families, the underhanded attacks of the Wen family uncles, and the battle over shares in Shu Properties all put their marriage, born of a transaction, to the test.

What she learned in London was freedom. Only after returning to Hong Kong did she understand: true freedom isn’t flying far away alone, but having someone by your side with whom you can be yourself anywhere.

“May my love surround you like sunshine, and yet give you the radiant freedom to shine.”

Then let’s begin with half a mile between us, and go on to a lifetime together.