A marriage in all but name?! Did he mean those wild few nights? The next day, when they tried to get their marriage licenses, they discovered that Ye Xun's household register was back in his hometown, so he called his younger brother and asked him to mail it over. While they waited for it to arrive, she stayed at Ye Xun's place.
They were like newlyweds, glued to each other day and night, unable to bear being apart for even a moment.
But before long, he vanished, and a wedding invitation appeared. For a time, she thought of all that sweetness as a humiliation. A marriage in all but name?! They had only been living together! They could hardly even call it that: she hadn't moved into his house, and they hadn't even held hands in public before he disappeared.
Very well written, keep it up.