■ Strangers to lovers after an arranged marriage | Small-town life | Everyday family affairs | A touch of healing
Wen Zhixu is an idealist, but not absolutely or completely.
She's ordinary yet resilient, naive yet conflicted, numb yet in pain.
She promised herself she would watch the nightscape in a big city 10,000 times, but fled back to her small county town before she had even seen it 1,500 times.
Jian Jinzhuo was once a spirited, carefree prodigy, but was betrayed by a friend and cheated on by his girlfriend.
He had seen enough of the city's bustle and grown tired of its streets, so he willingly returned to a small town and faded into the crowd.
The first summer after Wen Zhixu returned home, the first thing arranged for her was a blind date.
The man was not Jian Jinzhuo, but she married Jian Jinzhuo.
As they spent time together, they both discovered how unwilling to settle the other was.
A year into their marriage, Jian Jinzhuo said,