CEO × award-winning actress | Ten years of mutual secret love | Marriage before love | From school uniforms to wedding gowns
On the night they registered their marriage, rising tech star and Huaxin Group CEO Cheng Yiping left, claiming the company had an urgent meeting.
Award-winning actress Xie Yi'an stood alone before the floor-to-ceiling window. She opened the photo of the six of them taken in high school, ran her finger over his profile, and murmured, “At least now I'm somewhere you can see me.”
At the same moment, Cheng Yiping looked at the same photo in his office and let out a wistful yet delighted sigh. “In the end, I finally managed to keep you by my side.”
They signed a prenuptial agreement as thick as a dictionary, its clauses cold and its boundaries clearly drawn. He said he needed a “stable family image,” while she said she needed a “shield in the entertainment industry.”
Yet he remembered which brand of shampoo she used and which private kitchen dishes she loved best. When she sprained her ankle, he was there at once.
When he had a fever, she stayed up all night watching over him. She kept their home warm and orderly, and spent days learning from the housekeeper how to make him soup.
And yet she did all of it in the name of “maintaining their marriage.”
For ten years, he had secretly loved her, and she had secretly loved him too.
He set off a fireworks display for her that she never knew about, while she thought the name he called out in his sleep belonged to someone else.
She secretly wrote wishes for his bright future in their yearbook, while he thought he was only a passing figure in her youth.
Every secret love, every misunderstanding, every act of restraint, every feeling they couldn't bring themselves to voice...
Was shattered when, amid a catastrophic earthquake, he wrapped his bloodied arms around her.
“May all your wishes come true, and may the rest of your life be peaceful.”
[Happy ending, one-on-one romance, no underage romance]
