Sweet romance, no angst | Childhood sweethearts | Devoted love | Mutual crush becomes reality | He waited twenty years for her
The day Shen Zhiwu returned to China, her suitcase was stolen.
A black Maybach pulled up in front of her.
The window rolled down. Lu Yanzhou took off his glasses and looked at her. "Little Wutuan, get in."
She stared at him for three seconds. "Brother Yanzhou? How did you get so old?"
She didn't know that this man had waited for her for twenty years.
She also didn't know that the celadon bowl she broke when she was three had taken him twenty years to repair.
She left the Lu family home when she was five, then returned at twenty-three after finishing her studies. She only remembered that a boy at the old home had once held her hand. She had forgotten that he had knelt in the ancestral hall for her, taken the blame for her, and picked up every shard of her broken bowl, piecing them together over twenty years.
He bought her an entire floor of apartments, saying it was "a friend's empty place."
She casually mentioned wanting candied chestnuts, and a bag appeared on the table the next day.
She said she wanted to see an art exhibition, and two VIP tickets appeared the following day.
Everyone knew Lu Yanzhou was waiting for her. She was the only one who didn't.
Then one day, she found an entire wall of photographs in the old home's study. They spanned the years from when she was three to when she was twenty-three, and every one had a sentence written on the back.
The latest one read: "She's finally doing what she loves. I'm happy for her."
On the desk sat the bowl he'd spent twenty years repairing, still missing its final shard.
She took a piece of porcelain from her pocket and set it in place. It fit perfectly.
He stood in the doorway, his eyes red. "You broke it when you were three. I've spent twenty years putting it back together."
Later, when he proposed, there was no ring, only that bowl.
Inside it was a ring, and a sentence he'd spent twenty years writing:
"Will you let me keep putting it back together for the rest of my life?"
