Ye Yuwei spends an entire afternoon waiting in a café with divorce papers tucked neatly inside her bag. The coffee goes cold, the waiter refills her cup more than once, and the man she married never shows up. By the time she walks out, she has already accepted something that took her years to admit, a marriage can survive without love for only so long before it becomes little more than two names on the same certificate.
Most people in B City would probably call her lucky.
Her husband, Gu Juexi, sits at the top of the business world. Wealth, influence, and success seem to follow him wherever he goes, making him the kind of man countless women dream about. Unfortunately, dreams look very different from the inside. Ye Yuwei has spent years sharing a home with him without ever feeling like she belonged there. The expensive gifts, luxurious mansion, and comfortable lifestyle never answered the only question she cared about.
Did he ever truly want this marriage?
Instead of asking again, she decides to leave.
Gu Juexi hardly believes she means it. In his mind, Ye Yuwei has always been the one unwilling to let go, so the divorce papers feel less like an ending and more like another attempt to get his attention. He signs nothing, changes nothing, and expects everything to return to normal.
It doesn’t.
Time passes, paths separate, and the distance between them grows far larger than either expected. When fate pushes them into each other’s lives again several years later, neither of them is standing where they used to be. Their reunion comes with uncomfortable questions, unfinished conversations, and a bright little boy whose existence alone is enough to throw Gu Juexi’s carefully ordered world into complete confusion.
That is where the story really begins.
The people surrounding them remember old rumors, old grudges, and old misunderstandings, while new troubles arrive before the old ones are settled. Business rivals, family conflicts, hidden motives, and the truth behind several decisions made years ago slowly find their way back to the surface. Ye Yuwei, who once believed enduring everything in silence was the right choice, no longer intends to live that way.
Whether the marriage can be saved is almost beside the point. The harder Gu Juexi tries to understand why she walked away, the more he realizes he never actually understood the woman who had been standing beside him all those years.
