Love Starts From Marriage

Xia Qiange's family has a claim on her that she has never argued with. She carries what she owes them as her responsibility and her mission, and because of that she has not let herself go after a relationship or a life of her own. Gu Chengze has no connection to her until a chance encounter puts the two of them in each other's way. Each takes the other for a type at first. Time spent together wears the assumptions down, and as they come to know each other they suit, until each is the one the other chooses. He says what he feels, and he thinks about what he wants from love and from his work and then goes after it, and being around that wakes a voice in Qiange that she had kept quiet. Her first tries at breaking the chains her family put on her fail, and she keeps at it, and she is close to getting free.