At the age of 26, Xiang Xizhao followed her family's wishes and married Zhou Xingsu, the second son of the Zhou family, whom she'd known for 26 years.
They were simply following orders, and each kept to their own affairs.
On their wedding night, Xiang Xizhao thoughtfully laid things out for him: "If one day you meet someone you can't live without, remember to tell me. Given our friendship, as long as we divide the assets fairly, I'll let you go, and we can part on good terms."
Zhou Xingsu glanced at her lazily. "Are you making sure you have a way out?"
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"If the situation were reversed, I'd make sure you left with nothing."
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"And I'd make sure your lover could never hold his head up again."
He smiled and added calmly, "Either head."
Later, one late night, he came close to her, drunk, his deep eyes bloodshot. "If all you can give me is a love that goes along with the flow..."
She cut him off and asked sincerely, "Then you'd rather not have it?"
He pinned her arms behind her back against the wall. After a long pause, he lowered his head and let out an almost inaudible sigh.
"Zhaozhao, don't bully me too much."
She never saw that in those times and places where she was there, yet absent,
someone secretly sewed a piece of her old school uniform into his sleeve.
Someone's travel app was crisscrossed with countless routes between two points, weaving a net to draw her in.
Xiang Xizhao: "? What other surprises are you hiding from me?"
"What you don't know is that in those recurring dreams, you love me too."
Marriage first, love later; the male lead has a secret crush; both leads are sexually inexperienced.
The blurb was first published on 2022.09.06 and revised on 10.26. Screenshot saved.
Theme: Self-respect and self-love
