After graduating from high school, Shen Zhiyi sees Gu Yuanshan again at his father's birthday banquet, this time as Gu Jinzhou's girlfriend.
The once handsome, aloof boy has grown into a mature man, distant but polite. "Hello. I'm Gu Yuanshan, A-Zhou's older brother."
He has completely forgotten that they were deskmates for two days when school first started.
Later, during the three years Shen Zhiyi dates Gu Jinzhou, she and Gu Yuanshan have no further contact at all.
Until she breaks up with Gu Jinzhou--
As she sits alone in the obstetrics and gynecology department, waiting for a prenatal checkup, Gu Yuanshan, who is passing by for work, silently sits beside her.
She's so embarrassed she doesn't know what to do, but he remains calm, like a silent, towering mountain. When she enters the examination room, the doctor asks where her husband is.
Only then does he say his first words of the day--
"I am."
"I'm her husband."
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From childhood onward, Gu Yuanshan has always been the "other people's child" in everyone's eyes: excellent grades, mature and steady. Even in a small county town, his brilliance cannot be concealed. Everyone knows him as a gifted young man, the pride of the heavens.
Shen Zhiyi and Gu Yuanshan marry solely because she needs a husband in name, so the baby can be born without complications. He knows all about her past, and from the moment she returns to the county town pregnant, he is there for every first in the child's life.
When the child is born, no one doubts that he is the father.
The beautiful child has a face that looks seven parts like his.
But only she knows that she and he have never spent a night embracing each other.
Not once has she truly entered his heart.
The day Gu Jinzhou returns to her is the day the year-long period Shen Zhiyi and Gu Yuanshan agreed on before divorcing comes to an end.
Gu Yuanshan looks at her standing helplessly in the stairwell. "Xiaoyi, come up. We need to talk."
In Shen Zhiyi's eyes, Gu Yuanshan has always been as steady and taciturn as a mountain, a dependable older brother she can lean on.
Even after sharing the same bed many times, he has never crossed a line with her.
Yet on the day she decides to honor their agreement and divorce him, she realizes she has never truly understood him--
At the desk by the bedroom window, the man's broad chest presses against her sharp shoulder blades as he pins down the divorce agreement in her hand and asks if she's absolutely sure she wants this divorce.
Only then does Shen Zhiyi realize that even a man so quiet and taciturn can have such a passionate heartbeat.
"Cool, aloof head of surgery × low-energy introverted flower shop owner"
1. One-on-one pairing. The female lead is not a virgin; she has only had one ex-boyfriend.
2. Rivalry between men! Rivalry between men! Two brothers competing for the same woman! The male lead is the older brother!!
3. The child isn't the older brother's! But how can you say the child doesn't share his blood?!
4. Don't ask me where my morals are!! I'm writing fiction, what morals do I have left?!
Theme: Be brave and independent. Don't give up hope for life