On the day of the divorce, Lin Jianwei neither cried nor made a scene.
She packed her things, left her husband's company project group, and set the family card she'd held for three years on the table.
Zhou Jiming thought she was just throwing a tantrum and would be back before long.
After all, for the past three years, she'd managed the household and cleaned up whenever his projects ran into trouble. She was sensible and capable, and never embarrassed him in front of others.
He'd always believed a wife like her would never really leave.
That is, until the Old City Theater renovation project went out to public tender and Lin Jianwei showed up at the bidding with a team of her own.
She was no longer the woman standing behind him, revising his proposals. She was sitting across from him, competing for the very same project.
For the first time, Zhou Jiming realized he didn't actually know the woman he'd lived with for three years.
She would argue heatedly over construction budgets, stay up all night researching when problems arose on-site, and present an even better design the very next day after one of her proposals was rejected.
She no longer waited for him to come home, and she no longer needed his approval.
Worse still, the skills he'd always taken for granted had all along been quietly shouldered by someone else.
But Lin Jianwei had no intention of turning back.
Projects have deadlines, contracts come with obligations, and missed opportunities can be pursued again.
But she wasn't going to clean up the mess of that marriage for him anymore.
At last, Zhou Jiming began trying to win her back.
But this time, he would have to earn even the right to approach her.
And the old city theater, soon to be demolished,
