Lin Yuqing always thought that her marriage to Lu Yanchen was just about getting what each wanted. He is the president of Shengheng Group and needs a suitable wife; she is an ordinary primary school teacher and needs a stable family. Getting to know each other on a blind date, getting married in a flash, and getting a certificate. Everything was done step by step, too dull to stir up any excitement.
He treated her wonderfully. There is a warm breakfast in the microwave every morning, and there is a note on the refrigerator reminding her to put on more clothes. No matter how late she gets off work, she will be picked up at the school gate to take her home. But he never said he loved her, never asked about her past, and never interfered with her social life. Even if her childhood sweetheart ex-boyfriend came back from abroad and frequently appeared next to her in the name of work, he would just watch silently without even asking a question.
Lin Yuqing thought this silence was generosity and that she didn't care. What she didn't know was that Lu Yanchen had known her since she was sixteen. He remembered every essay she read at the radio station, his silhouette picking flowers under the osmanthus tree at the school gate, and the crumpled birthday cake she casually gave to a strange boy—that boy was him. He spent a full ten years getting close to her, and nearly two years of marriage waiting for her to fall in love with him. He didn't dare to speak, didn't dare to reveal his almost paranoid possessiveness, he only dared to hide the diary with her name in the drawer of the study, and act as a "just right" husband day after day.
It wasn't until one day that those dusty secrets were opened page by page, and Lin Yuqing got a glimpse of the deepest undercurrent in this taciturn man's heart - she casually gave him a branch of osmanthus, but he returned her a tree full of flowers.
Purpose: True love is not about possession and control, but restraint and waiting; a healthy marriage requires frankness and communication, not silence and forbearance.