[Marriage First, Love Later / Mutual Secret Crush / The Long Road to Winning Her Back]
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Luo Yi was famous for being a well-behaved girl.
She got good grades and had a gentle personality. She followed the rules, was quiet and obedient, and always walked with her head down.
The only outrageous thing she ever did in her life
was marry Lu Jiangye, a hoodlum notorious for getting into fights.
The Lu family had a son late in life, and Lu Jiangye was a classic spoiled brat.
Rebellious, rough around the edges, and terrible at school.
They were like the North and South Poles, parallel lines that would never meet.
At class reunions, everyone was curious, but Luo Yi would only smile shyly.
But no one knew.
In high school, the universally acknowledged campus belle, Qiao Yi, was Luo Yi's best friend. Like the heroine of a novel, she was always everyone's favorite.
And Luo Yi was forever the sidekick standing beside her.
Like the maid behind the princess, the ugly duckling behind the swan.
Every boy liked Qiao Yi, including the person Luo Yi had a crush on.
Only Lu Jiangye was the one boy who, after seeing Qiao Yi's beauty,
still pursued her with unwavering determination.
He gave her flowers and took her for drives.
He even climbed more than a thousand steps to pray for her success in an exam.
So Luo Yi quietly fell for him,
and married the sort of person she'd once wanted nothing to do with, thinking she could finally stop living in Qiao Yi's shadow.
Someone liked her, too.
Until one day.
Eight months pregnant, Luo Yi happened to find a photo album while sorting through old things.
Inside were love letters Lu Jiangye had written to Qiao Yi.
It turned out no one had ever loved her.
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It was only much later that someone discovered the truth.
The fool who had once hated books more than anything sat earnestly at a desk ten years later.
Awkwardly, stroke by stroke, he wrote page after page of a long confession
for a girl who would never turn back.
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"The people of the Sahara have their own calendar: ten thousand centuries, shorter than the instant of a rose."
PS: Bad boy x good girl, one-on-one romance, happy ending
(The male lead is a chaste man. He dated the female lead, then married her.)
Theme: Love yourself well
