Encounter by Chance

1 She held a platinum card between her fingertips, gleaming coldly under the moonlight: "Five-year contract, fake marriage, you decide the price, I can handle it for the family." Xu Zhiyi took the card by accident. She originally hated this kind of binding relationship, but the face in front of her - cold and distant, as if separated by a layer of fog, reminded her of a time long ago when she had looked at someone so purely. "Okay," she heard herself say. At that moment, she saw a momentary fluctuation in Shen Qingmu's eyes, like ripples hidden under the ice. Only later did she realize that what was waiting for her in that mansion was not acting, but Shen Qingmu's quietly turning this transaction into a long waiting game, and she had already fallen into the trap. 2 Shen Qingmu lived for thirty-five years, but felt that his life was nothing more than this. The company, home, and occasional social activities are like a straight road. She knows where the end point is and what every tree looks like along the way. No surprises, no disappointments. The day she met Xu Zhiyi, she just felt that this person's face was comfortable and beautiful. Later, the contract was signed and she moved in. He ate across from her every day, checked his cell phone on the sofa in the living room, and occasionally left his socks in the bathroom - all trivial things that were not worth mentioning. But Shen Qingmu found that she began to look forward to those little things. She didn't want Xu Zhiyi's heart. She just thought it was nice to have a little bit of other colors moving in the pure white world. Shen Qingmu has no obsession with marriage. When her mother said she wanted to start a family, she found someone she liked to sign a contract. It's not considered perfunctory, nor serious, just like completing a piece of work. But after Xu Zhiyi moved in, things became a little different. 3 Xu Zhiyi asked her later: "Why did you choose me?" Shen Qingmu thought for a while and said honestly: "You look good." "That's it?" "Yeah. Watching you sitting there is more interesting than looking out the window." She didn't lie. She really never thought that Xu Zhiyi would fall in love with her, nor did she think that she would fall in love with Xu Zhiyi. She just felt that those crooked eyes, that string of laughter that couldn't stop, and that "it doesn't matter to you, I'll be happy first" way of living were rare things in her life. It was so scarce that she was willing to spend five years keeping it. Intention: To love and be loved