If you fall for a proud, fickle man, when his mistress comes to provoke you, he’ll make you apologize without hesitation, then say as if granting you charity, “When I don’t love you, you’re nothing.” That’s Gu Zirui.
If you accidentally sleep with a proud, poker-faced man who only pretends to be aloof, he’ll gradually draw closer to you, then coldly interrupt the little one who keeps calling him “big sister”: “Don’t call me sister. Call me auntie.” That’s Qin Yichen.
Half of Lu Yusheng’s 26 years have been spent with Gu Zirui. To her, he is like the diamond bracelet on her wrist, cool to the touch, yet burning her heart.
After fourteen years as childhood sweethearts, she can only watch as he kneels before another woman and vows his love.
He shines at the center of the crowd while she stands alone in a quiet corner, heartbroken. She turns away with a bitter smile, only to find another man standing there with his hands behind his back.
He says, “The only way you can get back at him is to fall in love with me.”
She says nothing. With an easy turn, she hands the man she has loved all her youth a divorce agreement. “Gu Zirui, sign it. From now on, we have nothing to do with each other.”
“Lu Yusheng, have you ever heard that the greatest punishment you can inflict on a woman is to lock her in the cage of marriage and never let her out?”
The man takes the agreement and tears it to shreds, then turns and walks away, leaving her to imprison herself in this marriage in name only.
When she looks up again, a tall figure is shielding her from the sun. The man gazes down at her, his deep black eyes seeming to burst with countless dazzling lights.
“Either you marry me, or I’ll marry you.”
“I have a husband, and you have a fiancée.”
She kindly reminds him, but he doesn’t listen. When he speaks again, his voice is cool and clear, like a spring slowly seeping into her heart. “If you’re willing, I can marry you anytime.”
Lu Yusheng sums up her story with Qin Yichen in four words: One night, one mistake. She always thought his feelings for her had come from sleeping together, until one day she accidentally overheard him talking to a friend...
“I’ve waited ten years for her. I can’t let her go to someone else.”
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