[His perspective: unrequited love comes true | Her perspective: marriage first, love later]
[A gentleman on the surface, a madman underneath: CEO VS proud, refined swan]
The day Sheng Wanci returned to China, she came to fulfill her arranged marriage to the Zhou family.
Her intended was Zhou Yanci, the current head of the Zhou Group, and also her high school classmate from ten years ago.
Rumor had it that Mr. Zhou was cool, refined, restrained, and well-mannered, a gentleman through and through.
Sheng Wanci had thought theirs would be a loveless marriage of mutual respect. But on their wedding night, they did everything a newlywed couple was supposed to do.
What Sheng Wanci hadn’t expected was that he was a madman.
When she moved out of their marital home, the man who had always held himself above others showed up at her apartment, red-eyed, and spent the whole night humbly begging her to make up with him.
Word spread through their social circle: Mrs. Zhou had her husband completely under her thumb. He couldn’t even get into his own home.
When Zhou Yanci heard, he only smiled gently. “I don’t mind.”
Zhou Yanci has a secret.
Throughout all three years of high school, his gaze was always fixed on Sheng Wanci, proud as a swan.
But she was always accompanied by her childhood friend, who never left her side. He mistakenly thought he had no chance and could only bury his unhealthy love deep in his heart.
Ten years later, the opportunity to marry her was placed right in front of him.
Even if she didn’t love him, he would use any means necessary to keep her by his side.
Until one day, Sheng Wanci discovered the secret he had hidden in his safe for ten years:
A whole wall covered in ballet photos, with the same obsessive words written on the back of every one: [My swan.]
Only then did she realize that this so-called arranged marriage was the culmination of his decade-long, carefully plotted unrequited love.
“You think it was a lucky coincidence, but it was just me planning for ten years to make it happen.”
