Chapter 5
Chapter 5
Once, I believed there could be a true meeting of souls between two people.
Take Zhou Xu and me, for example.
The first time he saw me, when we were five, he slipped a ring he had woven by hand onto my finger and declared that I was the princess he would protect for the rest of his life.
During all those years when he loved me so openly, he held me high above everyone else.
Back in our school days, almost no boy could get anywhere near me.
And Zhou Xu, in turn, was very self-aware.
Plenty of girls wanted to get close to him, but Zhou Xu would only smile with disdain, point casually at me not far away, and say, “With Su Yi here, you think I’d be interested in you?”
Later, in pursuit of my dream, I went abroad for further study, and Zhou Xu waited for me for three years.
Whenever he found the time, he would fly to London to see me.
When the first snow fell, he hugged me from behind and, word by word, poured out how much he missed me, his voice sincere and aggrieved.
Later, when I returned home and fought my father’s illegitimate children for the family assets, he supported me with everything he had.
When I successfully secured my first company, he even said happily, “Looks like I’ve landed myself a woman CEO. I’ll have to work hard from now on so no one calls me a kept man.”
On the day his proposal succeeded, he lit up the entire city with fireworks for me.
Beneath that romantic glow, he held my hand and swore he would spend the rest of his life cherishing me.
The sincerity in his eyes never seemed false.
It was just that I had overlooked too many details. For instance, when he used to cling to me and act spoiled, he had half-jokingly mentioned how other men’s wives changed after marriage, becoming gentle and considerate and taking care of their husbands.
“Will I ever get that kind of treatment?” he asked, his eyes full of expectation.
I tapped his forehead with my index finger. “You want every good thing to fall into your lap, don’t you?”
Back then, Zhou Xu sighed as if resigning himself to his fate. “Fine, fine. If I married a strong woman, then I have to follow her out to conquer the world.”
But not long after, he became the man he was today.
Every tactic he had once used to pursue me, he gave in full to Lin Tiantian.
As if deliberately trying to get back at me, he bought Lin Tiantian every gift he had ever given me, and even more besides.
He said, “She’s so obedient. These are the rewards she deserves.”
But when facing me, he only sighed. “Xiao Yi, I said I would protect my princess for a lifetime, but fairy tales only go as far as the prince and princess getting married. You’re already my wife. What you need to do now is learn how to stabilize and maintain our marriage, not spend all day thinking about that crappy company of yours and showing your face in public.”