The Marriage He Wanted

The marriage Zhao Yuan is pushed into was planned in advance, and she goes into it believing it is an accident. Her older sister runs on the day of the wedding, so Zhao Yuan is put in the dress and sent to Fu Tingzhou in the sister's place. She has been in love with him for ten years without telling anyone. They share a bed, and she is both the closest person to him and the one he keeps furthest out. At his company she becomes the colleague he relies on for everything. She keeps telling herself that being Mrs. Fu is as much as she should ask for, and the wanting grows anyway, because what she is after is a heart that has never once moved for her. When she can feel it getting away from her she puts down the divorce papers and prepares to go, and Fu Tingzhou, who never lets anything show, comes apart and begs her in tears to stay. Afterwards she opens his diary and finds her own name on page after page.