Better Late than Never in Love

Lin Xiang's marriage was an arrangement her father made to save his company, and she was what he put up. It ran three years on those terms. Zhou Tingshen kept his distance, his mother made her own feelings plain, and there was talk about the marriage that Lin Xiang had to live around. A car accident put her in hospital for two months. Zhou Tingshen did not come once. His mother was cold about it. Her father asked how much could be got out of the Zhou family while she was still in the bed, and that was where Lin Xiang stopped explaining any of it to herself another way. The housekeeper had been taking the Zhou side and Lin Xiang let her go. The furniture in the house was Zhou Tingshen's choosing and she replaced it. She brought home a cat, and he is allergic to cats. Work she started again at the bottom, as a junior designer at Lightyear Interiors, where the other designers made things hard for her. The account she signed was the biggest on the firm's books, and Zhou Tingshen could not account for the person she had become.