Interwoven Light and Shadow [Marriage Before Love]

[This isn't a character type I'm good at writing, so it might not turn out very well~]

Wen Shiwu is a celebrity at the height of her fame, notorious for all the wrong reasons. Her scandals could fill the trending topics, and she dares to trample even senior actresses' dresses on the red carpet. Yet her striking beauty is flawless.

Shen Yanzhou is the youngest actor ever to win all three major film awards. Cool and dignified, aloof and distant, he has countless admirers.

At the peak of his career, he announced that he was married, shattering countless young women's hearts. The entire internet searched high and low, yet no one could uncover what Mrs. Shen looked like.

They had shared the stage at award ceremonies more than a dozen times, yet whenever the cameras pointed their way, neither would spare the other a glance.

Until an accident at a New Year's Eve gala sent the livestream cameras, watched by millions, to a corner backstage...

A fishtail gown trailed across the floor as a woman leaned against the wall.

Shen Yanzhou, dressed in a bespoke suit, knelt on one knee to fasten a silver chain around her ankle.

The image flashed for only two seconds before screenshots went viral. That night, nine related topics exploded onto the trending list.

As the whole internet debated their relationship, Shen Yanzhou suddenly updated his Weibo...

It was a stunning shot of Wen Shiwu from behind, wearing a deep-V fishtail gown that night.

Shen Yanzhou: "My wife. @Wen Shiwu"

Weibo nearly crashed. The post was shared more than half a million times in two hours, and their friends in the entertainment industry sent congratulations one after another.

But Wen Shiwu still hadn't responded.

Only Shen Yanzhou knew the truth:

The woman at the center of tonight's storm was pinned by the waist in his arms, trapped inside their hotel room with no hand free to go on Weibo...

Please check out my upcoming story:

A Glimpse of the Moon: "My girlfriend dumped me because I don't know how to breathe"

Xie Yulin is the youngest professor in the physics department at A University. He's meticulous, extremely rational, socially withdrawn, and not much of a talker.

He has a girlfriend six years younger than him, Jiang Yu, a recent college graduate who's cheerful, talkative, and always chattering away. Aside from being a little too talkative, she's usually very well-behaved.

He's always taken relationships seriously and loves her deeply. He's even planned her into his future.

In his eyes, their relationship is steady and lasting, with nothing to worry about.

Then one day, the usually gentle and well-behaved Jiang Yu suddenly tells him, "Xie Yulin, do you know how boring you are? I can say three things without getting a response, and it takes five before I get one measly reply. You don't even know how to breathe in bed. You have no sense of fun at all. So what if you have a handsome face? You're pretentious and boring. I've had enough. Let's break up."

Her few short sentences strike like thunder, shattering his long-held perception of himself.

After the breakup, Xie Yulin thinks she'll come back to him one day, until he sees her walking past him with her new boyfriend...

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