In the elevator of the office building on a rainy night, the sound of metal friction suddenly tore through the air - a three-second pause caused Su Qingyuan's high-heeled shoes to get stuck in the gap, and the distance between her and her "contract husband" Lu Zhiyan shrunk by ten centimeters.
As a top architectural designer in the industry, Su Qingyuan never believed in "accidents" until her father used the company's crisis to force her to sign a one-year marriage agreement with the rumored indifferent and abstinent CEO Lu, who was in charge of half of the city's business lifeline. She thought this was just a deal where everyone got what they needed, but she didn't expect that during the three seconds when the elevator suddenly stopped, when Lu Zhiyan subconsciously held her in his arms, the cold metal chain of his watch crossed the side of her neck, causing her heart to skip half a beat.
The married life unfolds in the script of "respecting each other as ice": she is busy bidding for landmark projects, he copes with the pressure of family pregnancy, and the two maintain a perfect "cooperative relationship" under the same roof. But Su Qingyuan gradually discovered that this CEO was not as unkind as the rumors - when she stayed up late to revise her drawings, there would always be an extra cup of hot milk at the right temperature on the table; when she was being challenged at the wine shop, he would calmly block all the edges for her.
The three seconds when the elevator suddenly stopped was like a switch, quietly opening the invisible wall between the two. When Su Qingyuan's design was maliciously tampered with, Lu Zhiyan used all his resources to clear her name. When the one-year deadline was approaching, Su Qingyuan handed him the signed divorce agreement, but he pressed it against the door panel with his backhand. Lu Zhiyan looked down at her, with an unprecedented seriousness in his eyes: "A three-second accident is not enough. I want to spend the rest of my life to see the final answer to this 'accident'."
Purpose: Light travel novel