Cheerful little ray of sunshine x gentle, disabled imperial merchant
At sixteen, Xie Zhi married into the imperial merchant Lin family by imperial decree.
She didn't know that at a plum-blossom banquet six years earlier, a young man had leaped into an icy lake for her, losing the use of both legs and half his life in the process.
Her heart belonged to someone else, while he kept his past hidden. Neither of them ever confessed their feelings to the other.
But Xie Zhi gradually noticed that Lin Jing would force himself to kneel beside her when she was punished, search an entire street when she left in a fit of pique, and quietly say, "I can handle it," whenever she was wronged. And this carefree little ray of sunshine would buy him candy, learn to read account books, and argue with people on his behalf, her eyes red with tears whenever he was at his lowest.
Then one day, a memorial was submitted to the emperor, and an old case came to light. Only then did she understand that the person she had been searching for all along was him.
"She won't get jealous, because she doesn't even remember that I exist."
"I used to think the person who saved me would be a peerless hero with incredible martial arts skills, but... but I really never imagined..."
"A Zhi, actually, I'm very lucky, because the person I love is already my wife."
