The Him in Her Eyes

*Revised the story, with major changes to the ending. The four locked chapters do not affect reading, but I'll slowly revise them and put them back up once I'm satisfied. 26.2.25

*Completed. I'll do a full revision after the New Year. Come back to read it once I'm done. Thank you all. 26.2.14

*Free and non-VIP. Thanks for reading! I'd also appreciate it if readers left a rating. 26.1.7

Blurb:

Pei Yi was probably born without the nerve for love. The only role left in his life that Jiang Fengdeng could possibly fit into was that of a business partner.

Jiang Fengdeng worked hard for twelve years, stubbornly forcing her way in.

But she never became Pei Yi's confidante or his muse. In the end, she became his wife by contract.

Though a written agreement stood between them, the accounts were clear and their responsibilities well-defined:

He gave her protection and resources; she gave him dignity and peace.

All in all, it was the closest Jiang Fengdeng's grand unrequited love had ever come to crossing the line toward the light.

Alternate blurb:

In the twelfth year of loving Pei Yi, Jiang Fengdeng married him.

Their wedding took place in the gap between an artificial intelligence summit and the Yelda Film Festival. It was a business agreement slotted into their schedules.

Their family and friends raised their glasses to celebrate the alliance. Jiang Fengdeng alone knew that her dream had come true.

Until an accident in the Amazon rainforest.

Medical reports and divorce papers arrived in Pei Yi's hands at the same time.

The man who had always been so composed and restrained sat alone in her director's chair late at night, gazing at the little sun she'd doodled on the storyboard. Slowly, a tear fell.

Pei Yi was good at deconstructing everything.

He could calculate the path of moving clouds and deduce the course of civilization,

but he couldn't figure out why the sea in her eyes had ebbed.

He thought she was pining for someone else,

after all, the devotion in her camera's gaze was so genuine that it couldn't possibly be meant for him.

*This is pretty cheesy. The age gap is six years; they marry first and fall in love later; the woman is secretly in love. It's free, but feel free to criticize it. I don't mind.

Theme: In the silence, you reached out and took my hand.