The Long Road Ahead [Marriage Before Love]

Sorry, I'm putting this story on hold for now. I've actually written over a hundred thousand words, but they aren't very good, sob. I'll post it after revising them!

1.

Qi Qi fell for Chuzechuan at seventeen. After the college entrance exams, she confessed and they got together, beginning a six-year relationship.

She always remembered how, in their first year of high school, Chuzechuan found her crying in a cemetery. He spent the last ten yuan he had to buy her fried noodles, then carried her on his back for three kilometers through the freezing winter night without saying a word, just to get her home.

When they got together after the college entrance exams, the young man promised her, "Qi Qi, I'll work hard to make money. I'll never let you suffer again."

Six years later, the young man looked at her, his eyes evasive. "Qi Qi, I'm moving forward, but you're still standing where you were."

Qi Qi glanced at the million-yuan watch on his wrist. Without a word, she made a dignified exit.

2.

Qi Qi had a whirlwind wedding with Wu Yuan, her childhood neighbor.

Before the wedding, they agreed on three rules: honor their parents, fulfill their obligations in life, and treat each other with respect.

But on their wedding day, the man with a pair of luminous, flirtatious eyes spoke in a lazy, unreadable tone. "Who told you this was a fake marriage?"

"What married couple sleeps in separate beds?"

3.

Qi Qi didn't know that on the night she cried in the cemetery during her first year of high school,

Wu Yuan had kept watch over her from nearby all night.

"Wu Yuan, is there anything you regret?" Qi Qi asked him casually one day after they were married.

Wu Yuan chuckled softly but didn't answer.

Perhaps it was that fleeting decision on a winter night that made us miss each other for six years.

But at least,

after all that distance, I finally get to hold you in my arms.

Theme: Learn to cherish what you have.