Her heart was a mix of emotions, as she watched the sunset dye the man before her's stern and meticulous brows. The faint warm orange glow made him appear not as intimidating.
Suddenly, she recalled a saying—"The closest and most distant relationship is that between husband and wife." She and he were sometimes so far apart, yet at times, it was as if they were the only teammates on a boat in the overturned world, so close, so close. He shielded her from outside harm, and she managed a small but restful home for him.
She suddenly thought, what right did someone like her have to desire love?
Growing up bullied by her stepmother and sister, faced with failure in the college entrance exams, dropped out of university, publicly humiliated and abandoned by her fiancé, and nearly sold off by her family to an unworthy playboy...
In this life, meeting Lu Shifeng had already been a fortunate thing.
