She thought it was a business deal. He spent ten years waiting for her to realize it was a love he had planned all along.
Su Tang, 20, the overlooked second daughter of the Su family, was “sold” by her father to Lu Siheng, heir to the Lu Group, through a marriage contract.
Rumor had it that Lu Siheng was cold and ruthless, decisive and merciless, a stone-faced devil in the business world.
Su Tang prepared herself to be thrown out within a year.
But on their wedding night, the man slept on the sofa until morning.
“I told you I’d respect you. If you want a divorce after three years, I won’t stop you.”
He remembered all her likes and dislikes: she didn’t drink coffee, wouldn’t eat cilantro, and was afraid of the dark.
Every day, he “happened to be going that way” and drove her to and from school, even though it added half an hour to his route.
On her birthday, he filled an entire wall with photographs, all showing her from age 12 to 20.
“Where did you get all these photos?”
“...It was a coincidence.”
“Lu Siheng, tell me honestly: when did you start liking me?”
He was silent for a long time.
“When you were 12, on your school’s open day. You were singing onstage, and I watched you from the audience.”
That year, at 16, he was already shouldering the weight of his family and had long since stopped believing in warmth.
But the sight of her singing in a white dress became the only light in his life for the next ten years.
He spent ten years loving a girl, then three more learning how to be loved.
And it took her three years to realize that this marriage had never been a trap:
Someone had wagered his whole life just to make her turn and look at him.
He said, “You’re the light I took ten years to dare approach.”
She said, “Then I’ll spend the rest of my life...”
