On the eve of the wedding, Xu Lanyin saw her fiancé Zhou Yanli holding his ex-girlfriend into the elevator on the hotel surveillance camera.
Everyone thought she didn't know.
The next day, she still put on her wedding dress and walked down the red carpet with a smile.
A friend asked her: "Have you really thought it through?"
Xu Lanyin said: "Weddings are expensive, and so is life. I can't make a decision based solely on love or not."
She married Zhou Yanli not because she believed in love, but because she thought this marriage could give her dignity, stability and a ticket to a better life.
But after getting married, she discovered that respectability is the most expensive and marriage is the best way to settle accounts.
Zhou Yanli didn't love her, but she didn't care at all.
When her name was not on the house book, her job was given up by default, her husband's family urged her to be sensible, and her ex appeared again and again, Xu Lanyin finally understood that she thought she was marrying as a bargaining chip, but in fact she was also marked by this marriage.
Later, Zhou Yanli asked her: "If I say I love you now, is it still too late?"
Xu Lanyin smiled: "Look, you still think love is the biggest bargaining chip."
