I Married the Man I Loved for Ten Years

Sang Nian spent ten years in love with Zhou Yuli without telling him. Through high school and university she watched him from wherever she happened to be standing, and she understood that someone like him was never going to be part of her life. Her parents pushed her into an arranged meeting. The man who sat down across from her was Zhou Yuli. He proposed marrying immediately, and she said yes, knowing what people would say about it. They said it. She was the substitute, she had married up, she had gotten lucky. Sang Nian let it go past her. Then his first love came back to reclaim the position she thought was hers, and Zhou Yuli stood up in front of everyone and made it plain, for the first time, that he has one wife and she is the woman he chose.